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Thats brilliant, shame it only works for us airports

I don't see why not, it could pick its data up from the pirep table I guess. But can't you already do this from the pilot profile page?

Hi all I have been lokking at some of your sites and very impressive they are to. I see some of you have login boxes on your front pages, I was just wondering how you did that, is it a show template thing or are you cutting and pasting code from the login page? Sorry if this questions been asked before I did look throught the forum but couldn't find anything Karl

Thats really weird, just incase there is a difference between files I have re attached the files I'm using. As before the FrontBids folder goes in your core/Modules folder and the Frontpage_recentbids.tpl goes in your lib/skins/yourskin folder. other than this I really don't know what else to suggest, Nabeel is the pro in this field, time permitting I guess Latest Front Page Bids.zip

I would love to see a special flights facility kind of like what Brussels Virtual Airline does. Basicly the admin set up a, or several categories for example: 2009 World Tour, South americain VFR Tour, etc. Then they enter a series of flights under each category, when the tour or flights have been all completed and pireped in the correct order the pilots get an award. You could have a menu link for special flights when clicked brings up the list of categories and when a category is clicked it shows two links one for the filed pireps four that particular category or tour and one for a list of the flights for that particular category. There would need to be a way to deacivate the tour once it has ended because a 2009 would tour would only be valid for 2009 However these flights would not show under the normal schedule. If I was building an access database I know exactly how to do this but this is not access and my php is poor at best so apart from maybe two more tables in the database the rest is beyond my knowlege in php, so please please with sugar on top could you atleast consider this in a future update Nabeel. Many thanks Karl

Hi Roger no I didn't change a thing, I used the original module, and just pasted the code you posted on here into my template, I then just called it into the front page using MainController::Run('FrontBids', 'RecentFrontPage'); FrontBids being the module and RecentFrontPage being the template Maybe a daft question but is your frontbids module folder definatly labeled "FrontBids" and your module inside that labeled the same? Note the capital letters! the same goes for when you call it in the front page.

As long as your not charged by flight hours if you pay the one time purchase price, only if you lease it should you be charged per flight hour. Good idea though, makes it more realistic, but there neets to be an option to turn it off as not every VA will want to use it.

Nabeel thanks for that, its very interesting reading. I will have to educate myself in writing php proberly! how people write it like a second language is beyond me, so I give enyone that can write it full credit. Roger what have you done and whats the problem, I have my bids showing up on the front page, but they are not clickable, thats my next hurdle! take a look at www.nexissair.co.uk please excuse the skin, I was just learning however am in the process of making a nice clean proffessional looking one as we speak. If I can help in any way just drop me a line Karl

sweet as this works a treat! thankyou roger and Nabeel. Just to put my confusion to rest, what is the pilot info bit all about? I would love for someone to put a detailed tutorial up here expalining what the relation ship between templates and modules is, i.e. why certain bits of code go in templates and other bits of code go in the modules and how you would get the contents of a module to show with formating without a template i.e. the hub map. I would love to make lots of addons for this system, it has huge potential but I having trouble just getting my head around the basics. anyway thanks guys what I was trying to do works now reagrds karl

Hi Roger I'm a bit confused! does this code replace the code in the tpl file? if so this is what confuses me as I can't see any code to output the latest bid fields, or has some thing changed in the module aswell, I did try this code in the tpl file but got a blank output

Roger thats great, I'm not suprised about mistakes lol, in all honesty I'm suprised I got as far as I did! I'm not a coder I'm an aircraft handler lol, but as the old saying goes you don't know unless you try and the best way to learn is to have a go. look forward to you uploading it, more out of curiosity than anything so that I can see where I went wrong. Regards Karl

I think if I read it right that code goes in a new module called ForumRegister

Hi roger I have re zipped (LatestBidsV01.zip) the files (the ones I'm using) and tested it on a new install on my test machine, it works but only shows the last bid (problem I can't work out), I was hoping that someone would be good enough to pick this up and help us out a little but until they do I am going to have to try and work it out when I get some spare time! unfortunatley real planes at stansted take up much of my time at work lol also in the zip I have included the test module I used to tap the api based on Nabeels Tutorial which shows the last five bids, to use it, in the core/Modules/FrontBids folder rename "frontBids" to something else and rename "Test" to "FrontBids" then to call it go "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/FrontBids" it is obviously raw data but you may be able to do something with it. please bare in mind that things are case sensitive If you have any success please let me know. Karl LatestBidsV01.zip

Ok hope fully this is the last question on this matter I will need to ask lol when I use this script that nabeel put right for me it works a treat and all the placed bids show up However I created a module and a template with the code below: Module: <?php class FrontBids extends CodonModule { function RecentFrontPage($count = 5) { Template::Set('lastbids', SchedulesData::GetLatestBids($count)); Template::Show('frontpage_recentbids.tpl'); } } ?> and template <?php if(!$lastbids) { echo 'No bids have been made'; return; } foreach($lastbids as $lastbid); { ?> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .style2 { font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; } --> </style> <p class="style2"><?php echo $lastbid->bidid . ' - ' . $lastbid->code.$lastbid->flightnum.' - '.$lastbid->depicao.' to '.$lastbid->arricao?> </p> <?php } ?> and used <?php MainController::Run('FrontBids', 'RecentFrontPage'); ?> in my front page to display it however it only show's the last bid placed not the last 5, I don't get it as this template is basically a modified recent reports template! I have looked at this and compared it with Nabeels excellent work for many hours now and cannot work out what the problem is. any ideas anyone? Karl

Hi all there seems to be a problem I have tried it and there only seems to be one bid showing regardless of how many there are, if anyone can spot my mistake please let me know many thanks