mischka

Nevermind... i got it... I was on ivao.org and the "real" ivao, looking exactly the same, appears to be on ivao.aero..

hello some time ago I tried to sign up with IVAO but the listbox where you're supposed to put your country didnt work.. somebody cocked up a javascript. Doesn't work on IE nor on chrome. I thought maybe they working on it, so I left it. Now I come back and see the same error is still there. Anyone else also experiences this?

A link to the charts maybe? Also it would be nice to have some description field for the airport/city where you can do a little write-up as to where a pilot would want to fly there. For example: Tivat Airport, also known as the "kai tak of Europe" is situated at the coast of Montenegro. It's southern approach to runway 32 has an offset ILS localizer (like in Innsbruck) leading through a narrow valley, with a steep turn at the end. etc etc.

Piuzioro, you made my day! The first assumption, of file limitation, did not apply cause my file limit was 20Mb and the file was 6ish But bigdump actually worked pretty well, and I now have the data in both my vms databases. The first I did with bigdump, then I made a csv export and imported that into the other database. Works like a charm and no need upload or execute scripts. To save anyone else all this hassle, here's the CSV file: phpvms_navdata.csv Keep in mind this has the column names in it so remove these from the file or set the import to skip the first row. Thanks again for piuzorio for putting me on to bigdump!

Ok, next time it crashes I'll try to get those data!

Hmmm, I suppose both of you have some valid points, stuart and sylvester I must agree with sylvester that the basic documentation for phpvms is far from ideal. Although there is something like a beginners guide to skinning, it doesn't really introduce the concepts of how the layout and templates fit together, nor the whole concept with the modules and the data classes. That hasn't anything to do with knowledge of a certain technology, its just not well documented, and sylvesters cry for a tutorial is understandable. Having said that, I agree with stuart that a prospective VA-manager should put in some time to figure it all out by himself. Why I think that? Well, IMHO, there are way too many VA's out there for the simple reason it's way too easy to start one. This becomes apparent from the amount of VA's that just have the basic crystal template with a banner smashed on top, or a slightly modified obsessblue skin. I learned phpvms the hard way, all by myself, and I'm a microsoft-programmer at heart: until I came in contact with phpvms I never touched the php programming language. Now I'm glad I did learn the basics of it I also think that I wouldn't have learned as much as I did if there would be more comprehensive documentation. It would have probably saved me a lot of time though I don't think that stuarts comments were rude in any way, he just puts his thoughts on the table, or page in our case, and that's a good thing.

Yeah, I suppose so.. but how to change it? Could anyone dump this for me in a csv file? Its probably even smaller than the sql file...

Nah, gives me internal server errors when I try to import it on phpmyadmin booooooring...

I don't know.. I suppose that info will show when I click on the details button, but all those buttons are locked.

Hello In my install package I found a file called navdata.sql which seems to contain sql statements that create a table with data about navigation aids. This is all very well,but the file is so big that none of my text editors can open it: they all crash. Not to mention copying and pasting it to the phpmyadmin and executing it Is there any way around it? Any tools or maybe this tabledata is available somewhere as a csv file to normally import to phpmyadmin? grtz Mischka

I made this list myself, but the country column is largely incorrect. Anyway it gives you just over 5000 airports with icao codes, and can be imported into your airports table in phpmyadmin phpvms_airports.csv

Happened to me again today, the only problem is that I can't click on continue at all. Looks like an unhandled exception to me ... maybe something to look at for the next release?

Great guide, just one comment: It's not necessary to check the option "search by flight number": if you've bid on a flight you should leave this unchecked.

Hello I got the following error message the other day (see screenshot) and then kacars crashed. Any idea what could be the matter? I had a similar issue some time ago which took down my fsx completely and afterward kacars didnt work any more - had to reinstall it and, as I later found out, remove profile files which the uninstaller had left behind

damn, that looks too good

Strange things are happening in your country! Greece, once so strong.. Greece, that gave us the Olympics, Sokrates and Gyros! Greece, where is your pride if your inhabitants can't spell your name any more? SCNR, Just kidding, I love Greece

Just make sure you can spell "Greece" (see thread topic)

This is how I understand it, I might be wrong: there are two scenarios relating to the autorank feature: 1.It's turned ON, and when a pilot reaches the amount of hours set for the rank he will be promoted automatically 2.It's turned OFF and you (VA Admin) have to manually set the rank In scenario 1, the order of the ranks is determined by the amount of hours you set for each rank ie rank A needs 10 hours, rank B needs 20 hours etc In scenario 2, pilots are not promoted by amount of hours, so the order has to be determined in another way: Rank A would be set to 1, rank B to 2, rank C to 3 etc. Hope this is correct and helps!

Yes, thats the one I use here: http://european.virtualairlines.eu/index.php/pages/destinations Its pretty much like what some airlines use to show their routes to customers: click on an airport and it shows the flights. To realise this I made a php script that "echoes" the contents for the xml file, cause it seems ammap cant read directly from php? At least it didnt work for me. For recent flights you'd need a more flexible solution than what I did, but soon as you can write straight to the xml, or point ammap to a php file instead of the xml, you're good to go

You could try ammap (google it) Are you using it to show recent flights or something?

I got something much better than that, on my VA site, but no, I wont give it away for free either! Try to make something like this yourself, and you will realise why some things cost money..

I'm using host1plus.com, works perfectly and doesn't cost an arm and a leg

Ok, great... I vaguely remembered something like it but didn't want to start a setup just for the sake of finding this out!

Hello Is it possible to install two separate phpvms entities in one mysql database? Currently all the phpvms tables have phpvms_ as a prefix, so I suppose I could change it, right? And then I could have both in the same database, but as two separate sets of tables? thanks Mischka

The best is to do an export of existing schedules and then work with that export file as a template. Also make sure that all objects you reference in the import file (Ie airlines, airports, aircraft) actually exist in your database before you import them. Flightlevel can be blank, nobody gives a hoot about that field