Updating Text Particle

I'm trying to display the online count on a floating text, which worked. but the difficulty is that on QueryRegenerateEvent it just adds another text over the original text, I just want it to update. how can I do this? this is the code:

PHP:

    public function updateTexts(){
        $config = $this->getConfig()->get("servers");
        foreach($config as $servers){
            $content = file_get_contents("http://mcapi.ca/query/".$servers."/mcpe");
            $decode = json_decode($content, true);
            if(!isset($decode["error"])){
                $this->maxCount = $this->maxCount + $decode["players"]["max"];
                $this->playerCount = $this->playerCount + $decode["players"]["online"];
                $localTotalPlayers = count($this->getServer()->getOnlinePlayers());
                $totalPlayerCount = $localTotalPlayers + $this->playerCount;
                
                $level = $this->getServer()->getLevelByName("newhub");
                $level->addParticle(new FloatingTextParticle(new Vector3(48, 45, -876), "", "§eThere are §b" . ($totalPlayerCount) . " §eplayers online"));
            }
        }
    }
    
    public function onRegenerate(QueryRegenerateEvent $ev){
        $this->updateTexts();
    }

 

Use FloatingTextParticle::setText(string $text) and FloatingTextParticle::setTitle(string $title)

 

o could you show me an example, I'm a bit nooby and confused

 

PHP:

$particle = new FloatingTextParticle(new Vector3(48, 45, -876), "", "§eThere are §b" . ($totalPlayerCount) . " §eplayers online");
$level->addParticle($particle);

Particle title is now: ""

PHP:

$particle->setTitle("Test");

Particle title is now "Test"

 

BTW
Argument 2 on FloatingTextParticle is the text, argument 3 is the title, so dont get confused

 

oh when I do this the same thing occours

PHP:

                $level = $this->getServer()->getLevelByName("newhub");
                $particle = new FloatingTextParticle(new Vector3(48, 45, -876), "", "§eThere are §b" . ($totalPlayerCount) . " §eplayers online");
                $level->addParticle($particle);
                $particle->setTitle("§eThere are §b" . ($totalPlayerCount) . " §eplayers online");

 

Because you keep adding the particle,
I'd suggest putting the particle in a global variable outside the function, adding it once to the player joined, and updating it with setTitle()/setText() ONLY

 

Example:

PHP:

public function onEnable(){
  $this->particle = new FloatingTextParticle(new Vector3(48, 45, -876), "", "§eThere are §b" . ($totalPlayerCount) . " §eplayers online");
}

public function onPlayerJoin(PlayerJoinEvent $e){
  $e->getPlayer()->getLevel()->addParticle($this->particle, [$event->getPlayer()]);
}

public function updateParticle(){
  $this->particle->setTitle("New Title");
}