I love the landing rate (landingstats) feature that SimPilot & Nabeel brought to phpVMS. I have always had a little niggle with it though, and that was the fact that if a pilot didn’t use an ACARS program which records the land rate, or they file a PIREP manually, then the output shows 0. This can be confusing for visitors to your site.
So with a slight mod to the output php, any PIREPS submitted without the landing rate present will now show “Not Recorded”. You could use whatever text you want. Here’s how:
<?php if($pirep->landingrate == '0') {echo 'Not recorded';} else {echo "{$pirep->landingrate} ft/min"; }?>
I just dropped this in a table cell on my PIREP view page:
I think it makes more sense to visitors, than 0.