How do I get a playername and then send them items

[ChristienChapman]

I want to create a on_rightclick function on a block that gives items. I can do it for each playername, but I want to get the name of the one who righclicked on the block and pass in their name into a /giveme command. Please help. Whoever finds solution will be credited on my project. Thanks and God bless.

[Mantar]

To get his name you want something like:

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local plname = clicker:get_player_name()

And then pass it to whatever function you've made. Or you could simply just do:

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local inv =  clicker:get_inventory() 
 inv:add_item("main", "tech:torch 10")

although that will fail silently if his inventory is full. You can expand it to

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local inv =  clicker:get_inventory() 
if inv:room_for_item("main", "tech:torch 10") then
   inv:add_item("main", "tech:torch 10")
 else
  minetest.drop("tech:torch 10", clicker, pos)
end

To drop it at node's pos if they don't have room.

[ChristienChapman]

Thank you. I will test this tomorrow. I think I can use if itemstack:item_fits("default:stone") it will check. Thanks. I am going to use something that blockhead showed me to do by passing in a com and for giveme with some code. I will try that with your solution and let you knos if kt works. Thanks and God bless.

[ChristienChapman]

I tested the code and it works. Thanks for showing me this, it will help with the project I am working kn very much!

[Mantar]

You're welcome! Have a skim over lua_api.txt in the minetest docs folder, it's full of valuable info on things you can do.