Get player id

Function Syntax

string get_player_id(string player )

Returns the user id number of a given player.

Code Sample

Get user id so that we can check the user's page for their current class.

class player_to_class( string player ) {
   string id = get_player_id( name );
   matcher classy = create_matcher( "Class:</b></td><td>(.+?)</td>", visit_url( "showplayer.php?who=" + id ) ); 
   if(find(classy))  
      return classy.group(1).to_class();
   return $class[none]; 
}

See Also

my_id() | get_clan_id() | get_clan_name()