ahughes3

Hello All, I just thought I would do a quick note to let everyone know that Virgin Atlantic Virtual is back up and running. We have been transferring our VA Site from wordpress to a PHPVMS based site with custom skin. We have already recruited 12 new pilots in the last couple of days and would welcome anyone from the flight sim community, new or experienced to sign up and join us. The website for the VA is www.virginatlanticvirtual.co.uk (not.com)! We are still putting final touches to the website porting all of our old site's content across such as liveries, charts etc but we're getting there. The operations system itself is fully functional so you can register, book flights, track flights and file pireps as normal. We are also recruiting for new staff members to help continue the growth of the VA. In particular we would welcome staff with the following experience: Youtube and Twitch recording expertise to support our youtube channel and help create a promo video ATC savvy players who can support our popular multiplayer session (London Heathrow + ATC) Knowledge of adding routes, fleet, finances to PHPVMS just to help us at busy times Hub Managers for US(KJFK) & Asia(OMDB) to support international players Generally experienced pilots who want to get more involved in running an airline If you are looking for a change or new opportunity then please do get in touch through the website or on our teamspeak server. IP 5.39.102.41:29865. As a VA we can provide the following benefits to pilots: Website with flight operations, useful information, liveries, downloads etc (site should be fully finished in a few days time) Facebook, Youtube, Twitter Forum for sharing information about planes, scenery, events Virgin Liveries Routes across the world incorporating Virgin Atlantic, Little Red, Virgin Australia, Virgin America The full Virgin Fleet with correct tail numbers and each planes unique name Multiplayer session (London Heathrow + ATC) through Steam. Private multiplayer session available for events & training Events per month and possibly per week depending on support Flight training - Learn ILS approaches, SIDs, STARs, Route planning, Fuel planning Train to fly on VATSIM Go take a look and sign up while you're there Go on, go do it now.......whilst it's fresh in your mind!

Your best bet would be to download a free phpvms skin that someone else has already created and use it to give you an idea of how to construct your site's skin. Saves a lot of time and trouble.

That's a nice looking template Angello. Personally I'd remove the animation elements, they are a waste of time, research shows users don't like them and they add extra coding that really isn't needed. Other than that, I look forward to seeing your template develop. Another tip, have a look at the structure of phpvms files and templates before you begin changing code because I started editing the "layout.php" before realising that there was a "navigation" template that controlled the navbar, a "frontpage_main" template that controls the homepage information etc. Work out what templates you need to edit info in so that you don't cause yourself problems down the line.

Oh my lord I'm such a baffoon! Sorted it now. I had copied another link in the nav menu and then just changed the filepath to /liveries whereas pages are stored in their own folder so it should have been /pages/liveries. All sorted now

This is probably going to be dead simple but I've tried a few ways and can't get it working. So I have created a new page called "liveries" and have dumped my html content into it and when I preview the page it shows nicely. I have then tried to create the url link from the nav menu, but every time I click the link I get the "module does not exist" message. The code for the nav link I'm using is: <li><a href="<?php echo url('/liveries'); ?>">Liveries</a></li> Anyone got an idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

Angello, the registration page for phpvms already exists, you just need to edit your css relating to the styles on that page. Find the registration template in /core/templates and look at the coding, then edit the css styles that relate to the form or divs. Have you created a new skin folder for your skin in lib/skins? If you don't do this then your skin will be overwritten when you update phpvms versions. If you have created a folder already, then just copy the registration form template from /core/templates into lib/skins/your-skin-name. Then if you make edits to the template they won't get overwritten. PHPVMS looks first at the skins folder so any changes you make should show up if you've set your skin in the admin centre. Hope that helps.

@Vangelis - That worked almost perfectly, just the styling is messed up now but I suspect that is the difference between my skin styling and phpvms styling. Does anyone know where the style sheets are for phpvms that control tables widths etc?

By function name, do you mean the template? So it would look like; <?php FlightBoards::flight_boards.php(); ?> Or is function something else?

I have created a module called FlightBoards.php and a template called flight_boards.php. I have managed to set it so that a link appears on my page and when clicked, it takes you to the FlightBoards page that displays flight_boards.php content. What I want to do is to get rid of the link and just have the flight_boards.php content show directly in the page without needing to click on a link. So far, the code I've used to create the link is: http://<a href="<?php echo url('/FlightBoards'); ?>">Flightboards</a> My question - what would be the code needed to call the content directly into the page without needing a link? Thanks

I am 99% certain that this is due to an incorrect file path reference or a file being called twice. Double check your css and scripts file paths to ensure they correctly point to the skin files and phpvms files. Also, if you are using a skin that has reference to jquery, you can comment that out as phpvms already has a reference to jquery and having both will break your skin.

I looked in the schedule_searchform.php and schedule_results.php and I can't see anything that looks like it is calling the main page content again. This is really puzzling as it is only repeating certain elements and not the whole page. Why can't these things ever be straight forward! I am back to square one, still trying to work out why this content is repeating and I'm still not much the wiser. Any support, truly appreciated. I can set up a dummy account on the site if anyone wants to go in a take a look at what is happening for themselves.

I am still having problems with content appearing on pages where I don't want it. I think it is because the layout.php file has the $page_content variable which in some cases is causing the content from layout.php to load twice. As the code that is appearing twice is static html code in the layout, I can't see any files that would be causing the issue and I've pretty much looked through all of them. The only other thing I can think to do is physically create a separate module and template and dump the code in there and then call it inside of the layout.php file. I'll try that to see if it makes any difference and do an update.

So I used the above coding as suggested and on the homepage when people aren't logged in they will see an image slide, a recent flights table and a booked flights table. When they log in, the image slider has now disappeared but the tables still show. I think I can sort this by moving the tabled code into the "if logged in" php code. However, I still have another issue. When I click on view schedules and search via destination, at the top of the search results I get the banner from the top of the page showing up. (see image below) I don't know why the banner is repeating as it doesn't on other pages I've tested so far (pilot centre). Does anywhere know what templates create this search results page so I can examine the code. Alternatively, can I create a module and template which replaces the page with different content? Thanks

I would be interested in this if it were compatible with kACARS. I can't stand not having realistic tracking of fleet and stopping pilots from just doing one way flights.

Great, thanks again Tom, I've managed to combine this with some table styling which looks just about how I want it. I may yet pay for a live flight board but I may wait till I get some more pilots first

Did this ever get released?

Well, it's been a while but I thought I'd update the post just the same. Having tried a whole bunch of ways to try and integrate the data from phpvms with wordpress I came to realise that with my coding skills it was never going to be an easy thing. To do what I wanted, I'd have to spend a bunch of money getting someone else to do it which I really didn't want to do. So instead I just ditched my old website (very sad as it was an awesome site) and am now using phpvms as my main site. So now it should be easier to add data content to pages as I'm already finding out. My new challenge is making it look half decent So far I've managed to get "recent flights" on the homepage. Can anyone point me to where I can find the code handlers for "currently booked" and "live flights" info so I can add those too? Thanks

@mark1million @t_bergman - thanks for the help guys, worked perfectly.

I think I get the idea now. I will go have a try and see how I get on. Thanks guys

All sorted now. I didn't need to change anything other than get new Google captcha keys. Once I entered those in the local.config.php and uploaded them, the form worked fine. Thanks again for the support and help

@t_bergman - next time post sooner!!! You'd have saved me sooooo much wasted time! Just kiddin. Your response in one of my other posts was a great help. Fortunately I had backed up all the files I had changed so I just deleted the modified files and restored the old ones. Then I got myself a new captcha key from Google, entered it into the local.config.php and it's all working perfectly. Thanks again for the support and responses

Obviously the recaptcha doesn't work and I'm not technically gifted to fix it. So, anyone know how I just remove it? At the moment no pilots can sign up for the airline

Ok so I worked out partly what I did wrong. I copied the code direct from the view window which copied a load of additional characters. Having cleared those out the code still shows me a number of errors which I don;t know how to fix. Is there another way round this captcha issue because at the moment no pilots can register and I need to sort it. Anyone else found an easier way to fix it?

Ok ima go try that Mark. I can't believe its an unusual request So what you're saying is if I put the header content that I want to show, if they are logged in, inside the php tags and then the other stuff I want to show goes outside of them? Thanks again for the support chaps.

Thanks AirbusAi342, my install is fresh. Apart from the skin this is the first thing I've tried doing. I am pretty sure I have either missed out a ; or ?>, something like that but the files are in all sorts of colours and I can't quite tell if I've copied it all perfectly. I was just hoping David might be able, or someone, whizz me there files so I know they are correct.