Setting (?) items in the hotbar

So I have this for loop that fills a player's inventory with dirt. I want the first 9 dirt blocks to be in their hotbar. How would I achieve this?

 

I've personally created a few loops that order a players' hotbar.

Here's an example:

PHP:

   /**
    * Give a player an array of items and order them correctly in their hot bar
    *
    * @param Player $player
    * @param Item[] $items
    * @param bool $shouldCloneItems
    */
    public static function giveItems(Player $player, array $items, $shouldCloneItems = false) {
        for($i = 0, $hotbarIndex = 0, $invIndex = 0, $inv = $player->getInventory(), $itemCount = count($items); $i < $itemCount; $i++, $invIndex++) {
            $inv->setItem($invIndex, ($shouldCloneItems ? clone $items[$i] : $items[$i]));
            if($hotbarIndex <= 9) {
                $inv->setHotbarSlotIndex($hotbarIndex, $invIndex);
                $hotbarIndex++;
            }
            continue;
        }
        $inv->sendContents($player);
    }


The basic idea behind this function is that it takes an array of items and attempts to link the items in a player's inventory to the same index in their hotbar. The hotbar and inventory indexes both start at 0 and it attempts to fill the hotbar from there.

 

PHP:

$inv->setItem($hotbarIndex, $invIndex);


 

I'm not going to spoon feed you code up to date code, you gotta do something yourself. I copied and pasted this function from a plugin I made.

 

I looked through some old forum threads. You posted almost the same thing? I honestly have no idea since the code you gave me was the one I used to use until it stopped working in an update.

 

Look for the up to date/working method.

@Muqsit has already provided you with a working function. Now you just need to put the pieces together yourself.

 

That is exactly why I asked on this thread.

Eh... Everywhere I look, PlayerInventory::setItem has two function parameters, $index and $item. There is no $hotbarIndex.

 

Ah ok.