Why is my script not being able to kick a user? - lua

Question

This script is designed so that when you say "!kick [user]" it kicks that user from the game. But, when I test it out, nothing happens with no errors in the output box. Whats going on?
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(player,message)
if player.Name == "playername" then
local words = string.split(message," ")
if string.lower(words[1]) == "!kick" then
words[2]:Kick("You have been kicked.")
end
end
end)
end)
Thanks

Answer 1

The reason nothing is happening right now is because your very first check is failing. You have the parameters for the Player.Chatted connection backwards. The message comes first and the recipient comes second. So what you've named player is actually the message and if player.Name == "playername" then is likely failing because strings don't have a Name property and player.Name is nil.
After that, the next issue you will run into is that after you've split the command into two parts, the second half of the command is still a string, and not a Player. So you need to find a Player with a matching name as the input string.
Try something like this:
local Players = game.Players
local function findPlayerByName(name)
-- escape if nothing is provided
if name == nil then
return nil
end
-- check if any players match the name provided
local allPlayers = Players:GetPlayers()
for _, player in ipairs(allPlayers) do
if player.Name == name or string.lower(player.Name) == name then
return player
end
end
-- couldn't find any players that matched
return nil
end
-- define all the players that can use commands
local admins = {
["playername"] = true,
}
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
player.Chatted:Connect(function(message, recipient)
if admins[player.Name] then
local words = string.split(message, " ")
local cmd = string.lower(words[1])
if cmd == "!kick" then
local playerName = words[2]
local targetPlayer = findPlayerByName(playerName)
if targetPlayer then
targetPlayer:Kick("You have been kicked.")
end
end
end
end)
end)