getPlayerName

Method: player :getName(...)
Variable: .name

Client-side

Server-side

Shared

This function returns a string containing the name of the specified player.

string|false getPlayerName ( player thePlayer )

Returns a string containing the requested player's name, or false if the player passed to the function is invalid.

client

This example outputs the local player name to the chatbox.

addCommandHandler("myname", function()
    -- output local player's name to the chatbox
    outputChatBox(getPlayerName(localPlayer))
end)