[Email Setup]

Hi @William

 

I don't think that `MAIL_MAILER=postmark` is right.

 

Did you tried MAIL_MAILER=ses there by any chance ? Don't forget to clear application cache for .env changes to be applied.

 

Good luck

[Dynamic Passenger and Cargo Calculation Based on SimBrief Configuration]

In above solutions, SimBrief will not send the auto generated load back to phpVMS, it only creates the flight plan. You will rely on pilot input (to get the numbers back)

 

This is important.

[Dynamic Passenger and Cargo Calculation Based on SimBrief Configuration]

2 hours ago, IFL442 said:

Hello everyone,
 

I have a question regarding passenger numbers and cargo calculation per aircraft. These values are set in the Fares section. However, the same aircraft type can have different configurations.

Is it possible to send the values dynamically to SimBrief using "AUTO" so that SimBrief calculates the passenger count and cargo weight based on the specific aircraft configuration? These values could then be automatically transferred back to phpVMS.

This would reduce the maintenance effort and prevent issues when an aircraft has a different configuration than the one predefined.

I hope I have explained my request clearly. Thanks in advance for your answers!

 

Best regards,
IFL442

 

Hi,

 

If you want to use SimBrief's internal random load generation logic then you need to either disable capacities in your fares (so phpvms can not generate any load) or you can disable pax, baggage and cargo amount transfer in SB form (so phpVMS will be able to generate but not send anything to SB)

 

In any case there will be a mismatch between SB and phpVMS. Also there may be logical problems, mismatches in your phpVMS financial data.

 

You may need to check SimBrief API documentation to better understand what to disable and how it behaves, also you may need to alter simbrief_form.blade.php if you want to select the second option.

 

Good luck

[Landing G-Force]

Hi William,

 

Please do not mix up different questions / problems in one topic  It makes it harder to find and track stuff. This looks like a totally different theme or authentication related issue (and has nothing to do with landing g-force), please open a new topic about it by mentioning the theme you are using, preferably tag its developer if it is a 3rd party product.

 

Safe flights

[Fleet]

4 hours ago, cdtssgtbradshaw said:

So my VA has alot of aircraft and would like to narrow it down. I was told that if an aircraft has already flown a flight it will screw up the system. Is this true or can I wipe out the fleet and redo it?

 

You can do it, even though it is not advised or suggested, it is ok to start over.

 

Worst case scenario is a having an error due to a missing failsafe and trying to load a non-existing record. The logic behind not deleting is "relationships" used in phpvms v7 (laravel), a pirep has a relationship to the aircraft it is reported (created) with, financial system uses those deep relationships too.

 

During the development process, we identied lots of errors coming up due to deleted records, no new ones are being reported for almost a year maybe more  So we can assume that it will not be case for near future  

 

Hope this helps

[Landing G-Force]

2 hours ago, William said:

Apologies if this has been discussed previously.

I see the G-Force landing in the vmsACARS report summary after the flight, but the information is not passed to V7 it seems (or at least I cannot see it in the pirep)

If I am correct, is there a way to pass that information along in V7 backend? Afterall, G-Force is a much more important parameter than VS when judging landings.

Thanks in advance!!

 

It is already there in pirep fields, therefore no previous dissussion was done and as far as I remember no issues was reported about it 

 

 

Safe flights

[CODE that detects the network in which you are flying!]

3 hours ago, a7c12a5 said:

@DisposableHero is this part of one of your modules in v7. I'm starting to work on setting one up using your modules.

 

Also do you know of for v5 someone already did something similar and shared it with the community?

 

I have no knowledge about v5 addons, probably people are using such tools (as I saw in some old VA's doing online checks, it must be an addon or custom code VA's built for this purpose) ... 

 

For v7, DisposableBasic is capable of doing such checks (even can do callsign match checks on airline), store results as pirep field values, auto reject etc. You can check its readme file to have some more info.

 

Safe flights and good luck on v7 switch. 

[[phpVMSv7 / SPTheme] Introducing my phpVMS Theme Package]

Awesome...

 

Thanks for your continuous support to the community and efforts.

[Buy a licence]

You can always request a change on licensed domain, so as a user I can say that there will not be an additional purchase requirement, as long as you want to use one domain all will be ok.

[Maybe Silly Question]

Great news... KB was nice, at least it tried to work up to a point

[Maybe Silly Question]

Hi @William, are you getting this error on Windows, if so which browser?

 

To secure form processing, v7 uses csrf tokens to have protection against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery issues. I saw some android devices are not liking it much and returning 419 (Page Expired) instead of logging you in (but accepts login and/or form data).

 

More info from Laravel : https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/csrf

 

So if you are always getting the same error in a specific case or theme, I would advise checking the theme and/or form, it may have missing elements, but if it is random and happens rarely, it can be timing or something else.

 

Hope this helps

[Image (png or jpeg) in phpVMS v7 does not show in vmsACARS v2 opening page]

8 hours ago, easternhops said:

Hello, Acars 7 app 2.0453 does not allow png,jpeg images from the news portion of our website to transfer to the Dashboard portion of Acars but it lets the text like it did in the 1st version  I was able to add mapp picture and information for an upcoming event now the new 2 version dose not allow this any idea what might be happening...

 

thanks for your time Mr Pizza  EasternHops

 

Yeah, there is an issue about vmsACARS v2 dashboard and it is limited intentionally, therefore only text is visible (no images, no fancy formatting). This was discussed in discord and a notice was published about the limited capabilities.

 

Hope fully in near future it will work like before and will display nicely rendered news.

 

Safe flights

[PHPVMS Acars add time left in flight]

Please do NOT post different problems (or requests) under another one if they are not related to each other... This topic was about your request for "ETE" display, image displaying issue has nothing to do with it.

[Pirep autoreject for incorrect airframe or airline ICAO]

Yeah, if you are providing custom liveries which you have full control and sure that they are ok then you will have less problems 

 

By the way, I am adding some checks to Disposable Basic for this purpose, be aware that X-Plane will be excluded from those checks as it does not report back the livery name like MS/P3D etc.

 

And to allow multi airline setups, people doing sub-charter flights for another supported airline I will be checking both the flight's and aircraft's airline, if one matches then it will not be rejected. Imagine like you are simulating both DLH and KLM at the same phpvms v7 setup and a KLM aircraft is allowed to operate DLH flights, then it is perfectly normal for the flight's and aircraft operator's airline icao code will be different. So in this scenario, a livery containing DLH or KLM will not be auto rejected, but if someone flies with a livery containing FDX for example, it will.

 

Safe flights

[Pirep autoreject for incorrect airframe or airline ICAO]

8 hours ago, Beedo said:

Hi everyone,

Is there any way to autoreject pirep if the incorrect airframe is used for a flight? For example, we have a subfleet and an aircraft, say an A320. But instead of the defined aircraft in the subfleet, an A321 or even a B737 has been used for the flight. And the pirep has been filed. We want to encourage pilots to fly with the correct aircraft and livery.
My second question. Is it possible to build a function to reject pireps without the correct livery? Reject it by the incorrect Airline ICAO, as the Airline ICAO is present in the livery folder in the aircraft.cfg and the acars read it.
Thank you for the infos. Have a safe flight.

 

Technically it is possible, by some custom listeners/code which will run when a pirep gets filed.

 

But it is very tricky, because aircraft developers and livery painters mostly not paying attention to aircraft icao codes or aircraft.cfg entries, most of them are even not able to spell airline names/codes properly in the liveries they ship. As an example to false icao codes being used by developers is PMDG 737 series, even though they ship A B738 (B737-800) to people, their aircraft config says it is a B737 (B737-700), same applies to B736 and B739 too. Also MSFS has other problems converting/using the livery aircraft.cfg entries to plain text and reports back strange codes (their variable names) back to 3rd party addons like vmsAcars.

 

In theory, vmsAcars returns back the aircraft title to your phpVMS/server as a pirep field value, with a custom listener/code you can check the livery name and do whatever you wish (like penalizing the pilot, rejecting the pirep, commenting on their pirep etc.) even though you will have lots of false positives it is possible.

 

However to reduce those false positives, after you have your custom listener up and running, you can ship your liveries to your pilots, which will have correct aircraft.cfg entries and kindly force them to use your officially approved liveries for flights. Rest will continue creating problems, but will be rejected automatically, which is another nice way to teach people to follow VA SOP and rules

 

One of my addons (Disposable Basic) offers an auto rejection feature, if you need something to begin with, you can check its code as an example to build your own.

 

Hope this helps

[[ADD-ON] FlightTools]

Great news, enjoy your new addon/module

[[ADD-ON] FlightTools]

13 minutes ago, VAEA said:

Hi yes i did both of those. The screenshot above is off the frontend page

 

The screenshot above does not show the menu after login, it is the public frontend. This is why I asked about any new menu items.

 

Clicking those buttons from admin modules page may end up nothing if it is designed that way, a module can leave them empty/null and provide only a page a frontend which needs to be clicked from frontend etc. etc. As an example, my modules have lots of frontend links, and nothing is defined for the button you try to click, same for admin pages too. This module may be the same, therefore you should check its documents (if any) and try checking your frontend menu after logging in to your phpvms.

 

Hope this help, good luck

[[ADD-ON] FlightTools]

Did you cleared your application cache after enabling the module? Did you check your frontend page afterwards for any new menu items?

[Japan Airlines Virtual Seeks Staff to Join Our Team]

Dear @Toyuko,

 

First of all, I wish success to your virtual airline, hope you can find talented staff members to fulfill your wishes and success.

 

I just want to kindly remind you that, your crew center is clearly violating license terms of my addons (Disposable Basic and Disposable Special). They are both installed and active but there are no attribution links visible on your website, which is clearly stated on the license with some usage examples provided in the readme.

 

So, you have two options;

 

1. Either remove my addons from your crew center (which is based on phpVMS v7)

2. Or fulfill license requirements and provide attribution links in footer (like you do for the rest)

 

If the frontend is developed by any third party company/individual, inform them immediately about the issue and request their support as they may be responsible for the install/management.

 

Good luck

[Icons and flags not visible Disposable theme V3]

2 hours ago, Jerry said:

Hello,

For some reason I can no longer see flags and badges. Also click spots with icons are also invisible though clickable.

https://www.fofvirtual.com

phpvms7.0.2

Disposable V3 latest theme files from Github

 

Please kindly check the docs (theme readme, at same location, github), requirements about a va/admin owned fontawesome kit is documented there.

 

Once you start using your own kit, pages/links/icons will start working.

 

Good luck

[PHPVMS Acars add time left in flight]

I would like my pilots track their Estimated Time Enroute (which is basically the time between takeoff and landing) "ETE" from their aircraft directly, either from flight management systems or instruments. Compare it against their flight plans, preferably along with elapsed time value during flight. Do necessary actions if they are falling behind or ahead of their schedule or flight plan etc.

 

None of my guys would look to vmsAcars map window for something dynamic like it, as it will not be accurate and will be a misleading/unnecessary information

 

Safe flights

 

 

[No airports or airport database loaded]

Already replied on Discord, v1 is not fully MSFS2024 compatible  It needs MSFS2020 to support 24, wait for v2 beta.

 

Safe flights

[PHPVMSGEN - a free data creation service for phpVMS]

Yeah, things do change... And if you don't finish something in 3 years it will be the same for future, v7 will continue to evolve, you will always be behind with this logic

 

Good luck and God speed if you believe in one.

[Error in Development Version Zip File]

What you are doing is not right or was not right  Technically you were downloading the source code (from GitHub) and then expecting it to be "install ready" with the vendor folder.

 

 

 

Also we do have the latest development branch, with all dependencies linked here at this forum

 

 

 

I do agree on that, the documentation needs to be updated (to reflect the latest dev build links properly), and for that some action was already taken but it needs some approval from @Nabeel before being published. So if he can check the changes and approve, the docs will be nicely aligned

 

[Looking for specific modules]