<function name="OnPlayerChat" parent="GM" type="hook"> <ishook>yes</ishook>⤶ <description> Called whenever a player sends a chat message. For the serverside equivalent, see <page>GM:PlayerSay</page>. <note>The text input of this hook depends on <page>GM:PlayerSay</page>. If it is suppressed on the server, it will be suppressed on the client. This also means, that a message surpressed with this hook will be still visible to other clients.</note> </description> <realm>Client</realm> <predicted>No</predicted>⤶ <file line="135-L172">gamemodes/base/gamemode/cl_init.lua</file> <args> <arg name="ply" type="Player">The player</arg> <arg name="text" type="string">The message's text</arg> <arg name="teamChat" type="boolean">Is the player typing in team chat?</arg> <arg name="isDead" type="boolean">Is the player dead?</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="boolean">Should the message be suppressed?</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>How you could create a clientside only chat command.</description> <code> hook.Add( "OnPlayerChat", "HelloCommand", function( ply, strText, bTeam, bDead ) if ( ply != LocalPlayer() ) then return end strText = string.lower( strText ) -- make the string lower case if ( strText == "/hello" ) then -- if the player typed /hello then print( "Hello world!" ) -- print Hello world to the console return true -- this suppresses the message from being shown end end ) </code> <output>Prints `Hello world!` to the console when you type `/hello` in the chat.</output> </example>