RamiAbouZahra

Update! It has now been rewritten to what I consider "good code" and documented. Below you will find a link with instructions on how to set it up etc. Feedback is appreciated https://github.com/RAZERZ/PullFlightData EDIT: This rewritten code also contains the "features" that I stated above

Updates: So, I ran it for a week using a cron job (someone can probably figure out how to do that) but as you see from the code, it is the definition of a mess and no documentation. I also found an issue since I was calculating the time by checking the difference between departure time and arrival, which could give unrealistic times if for example you depart 18:00 and arrive 01:00, it would say flighttime is 17:00... Another thing I need to fix is the days of week a flight is flown, which was always set to all days. This time it will check for existing entry and if it exits, it will update this to include the correct day of week Right now, I am rewriting it and documenting, so "stay tuned" when next version is released.

Once the whole thing has been tested and rewritten (I mean, have you seen the code? It is the definition of spaghetti), I will announce on how to install it and documentation

Hey, this project is not finished, so currently it only pulls the data and stores them into a csv file (you can make a cron job to run it). The end project is finished, I have it running right now collecting flight info and saving them in a database, but I need to fully test it for about a week before I release it into the open

I fixed the issue where it errored out due to premature closing tags and whatnot, it was due to most of you not having the short opening tags enabled but I replaced them with the full opening tags.

It's not finished yet, and you should at least be able to pull some flight data if you're on linux I need a bit of time to port it over to windows (I know what the issue is, it's my fault for doing the shortcut way :p)

I know the issue, you're using windows server right? Well, for some reason they can't accept short tags and therefore don't see the <?. I'll push a commit later fixing this

A great landing is one where you can use the plane again. +1 for the correct forum

Hey, as we say here at phpvms, if it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid

Hate to shatter your dreams but that's not why... You can close and open multiple times in a php file (otherwise I wouldn't be able to print the data into the table ). That issue should not be existing if you properly copied and pasted and made sure that all the syntax is included in the new file. I also have to state that this should not be run on the server, don't paste this anywhere on the website. I am also curious which php version people whom are getting this error are running.

if(isset($_POST['airline'])) { That is from the first if command, how can you not have that? Did you download the code from my github or did you copy paste? Make sure to include the html code in the top of the document, otherwise the $_POST will return an index error

Yep, good intentions I guess this thread can be everything about pulling flightdata for free for import to phpvms

Quickly skimmed through it, afaik, flightxml2 is deprecated :/ But hey! Conversion to flightxm3 is possible Just a bit curious how using "w" worked out, did it overwrite entries in the csv file? That's what happened when I used it, I could only get the last data in the array so I used option "a" instead which worked

Looks and sounds awesome! I see what you did there without using the api (I'm not even mad that's impressive). This is just a project I did to learn to work with api's and curl in php, but it's pretty cool what you can do!

https://uk.flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/signup.rvt?product_type=1 wrong link (again, sorry :p)

Well, have you created an account, verified email and logged in?

Could be wrong link, my bad http://flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/ scroll down to get api key (you get 500 queries free)

I have considered it, but it's not the best solution (if a code already exists, it's going to append it twice which isn't good). This isn't my top priority, but it's up there.

You don't install it on phpvms (although you can, but I am not going to sit and write a tutorial on that :p), you run it and get a schedule.csv which you can import to phpvms. Right now, it doesn't get all the schedules, you need to run at a couple of times and whatnot but I am working on it As for the api key, you can create a flightaware account, then go to this (https://flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/key) link and then copy credentials to the php file Thanks for trying it out

Update: -Forgot to convert AM/PM to 24hr, fixed - Includes total flight time Next update will check if there is a route filed and print that to the table and csv file. Possibly going to add the same thing for the altitude, but I am not sure if I should to it flight level or just pure altitude. Maybe I'll integrate a checkbox for that

Update: - Removed AM/PM tags, now it's easier to import to phpvms! Next update will have total flight time

Update: Added so you can index by airline Next update will remove the AM/PM tags

Hey, I noticed that the "demand" for this thing seems to be quite "high". I created a tool that pulls data from flightaware's api and stores them into a csv file which phpvms can accept There is still plenty to do (I need to add so you can quickly change airline to pull data from). You need to create an account at fligthtaware and then change the variables in the index.php file, then you're good to go! How does it work? Well, unlike some other services, it doesn't use AirlineFlightSchedules query in the api since that is a paid service, we want to keep it completely free. It uses AirportBoards and then adds the parameter of only including the airline you want and then takes the data which is looked after (airline code, flightnumber, tailnumber etc) and prints them out into tables and into one big csv file. It takes only arriving and departing aircrafts, since when doing scheduled ones, missing info was inserted. Since it's using AirportBoards, that means that you have to run this script every day for a week on all the hubs (don't worry, you can change which airport to capture data from) to capture all the data. You can check and contribute to the project at my github

Okidoki! Thanks!

Everything was working fine until the news page disappeared and left a white trail after it on the website. Went to check on it in the admin panel and I get, Your License key is Invalid Couldn't find any information on this. Any help is appreciated.