Need help debugging Lua scripts for GMod10

[chumchum]

Hello all
I've been trying to create a mod for GMod 10, you can see the original idea/post here (http://forum.moddb.com/thread/23950/?page=2).(only the last post is relavent, to this thread)
AS you can see the thread died an no one there can help me, so I turned to you guys =D.
Anyway, my problem is...well I don't know the problem, which is why I want to debug my code in source with dev console and have tried to do somaking a command for each of my functions that returns text to see if code is working.
I tried this at first (yeah it's all in the thread) and my commands didn't return anything(even for working code), so I wanted to know if my code for creating console commands was even working, so I wrote this script



function testfunction()
player.GetByID( 1 ):PrintMessage( HUD_PRINTCENTER, "LOLZ" )
end

concommand.Add("laugh", testfunction())

Alas, this didn't work.
Does anyone know what I got wrong and could they please tell me how to fix it.
Any help and suggestions will be appreciated :D

Oh, and you'll probably need this since any Lua scripters out there won't necesserally be familiar with GMod 10 functions ;)
http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=Server_Function_Dump
http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=Client_Function_Dump
http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=Global_Functions

[PaulFr]

Not knowing Lua and not having GMOD, I highly doubt I can help :-) But then rushing to tread where ... and all that, I would suggest you try the example function in http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=Common_Code_Snippets#Adding_a_console_comma nd first. That seems straightforward enough to me.

BTW, when I say use the example function, use it exactly as is to see whether it works. Do not add or subtract anything (especially the function parameters).

Update: AFAICS, the first parameter in that example function is the player object ply and so if the example above works, you can try changing the body of the function to
local (http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=local) playerName = ply:GetName (http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=.GetName)()
ply:PrintMessage (http://www.garrysmod.com/wiki/?title=Player.PrintMessage)( HUD_PRINTTALK, "This is a message from " .. playerName )

[chumchum]

OK thank you for that =D (didn't know there was a list of code snippets :oops:)