{name}

how to make it so that if one would put {name} into the config it will be seen by the plugin as p.getName() so like in the essentials config {PlayerName} but then with {name}

 

myString.replaceAll("{name}", p.getName());

 

It would depend on what exactly you were doing..

Example:

Code:

@EventHandler
public void onJoin(PlayerJoinEvent e){
    Player p = e.getPlayer();
    Bukkit.broadcastMessage(getConfig().getString("join-message").replace("&", "§").replace("{player}", p.getName());
}

 

messages like join quit death etc

 

I'm going to make a really short example of how this should go.

Here is the config:

Code:

messages:
  join: {player} joined the server!
  death: Unfortunately, {player} is no longer with us.

Here is the main class:

Code:java

 
public class MyPlugin extends JavaPlugin
{
    public void onEnable()
    {
        getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(new EventListener(this), this);
    }
}

Here is the listener class:

Code:java

 
public class EventListener implements Listener
{
    private MyPlugin plugin;
 
    public EventListener(MyPlugin instance)
    {
        plugin = instance;
    }
 
    @EventHandler
    public void onJoin(PlayerJoinEvent event)
    {
        String joinMsg = plugin.getConfig().getString("messages.join");
 
        event.setJoinMessage(joinMsg.replace("{player}", event.getPlayer().getName()));
    }
 
    @EventHandler
    public void onDeath(PlayerDeathEvent event)
    {
        String deathMsg = plugin.getConfig().getString("messages.death");
 
        event.setDeathMessage(deathMsg.replace("{player}", event.getEntity().getName()));
    }
}

Basically you're getting the String from the config, then replacing every instance of {player} with the player's name that is involved in the event. I haven't tested this out, but it should work.