Pilot online/ offline in signature?

phpVMS Legacy Add-Ons (v2/v5) Code Snippets
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Hello,

I was wondering if there was a code to say if a pilot is online or offline on the website in the badge/signature? I have being looking around the forums but found nothing..

Thanks,

James

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I heard that simpilot will release something like that while ago, all though. I’m not sure.

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I do recall him mentioning that as well. Not sure what came out of it to be honest. Except I think his showed if guys were online or offline at Vatsim. You can view it on the ACA site in action.

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Ah well, ill put something else in its place on the badge for the meantime.

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I believe it runs on a cron job every 5 minutes to check if the pilot is online or not, Vatsim indicators are so unreliable their site is down more than its up.

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I built a seperate status badge from the native phpVMS pilots badge. It is updated every 10 minutes by a cron job running on the server. It gets the online/offline, route, flight status, etc, from the acars data table on the site so it doesnt matter where they are flying, vatsim, ivao, offline. As long as they are connected to the acars client and the site their pilot status badge is updated. If they are not connected to the site via cars it takes the last flight data from their last pirep and displays some basic info, last flight number, date last seen, etc.

There is a page with all of the active pilot’s status badges here -> http://www.virtualaca.net/index.php/status

And they are also located in each pilots profile like here -> http://www.virtualaca.net/index.php/profile/view/1

I have been debating with myself about releasing this in some way…

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I built a seperate status badge from the native phpVMS pilots badge. It is updated every 10 minutes by a cron job running on the server. It gets the online/offline, route, flight status, etc, from the acars data table on the site so it doesnt matter where they are flying, vatsim, ivao, offline. As long as they are connected to the acars client and the site their pilot status badge is updated. If they are not connected to the site via cars it takes the last flight data from their last pirep and displays some basic info, last flight number, date last seen, etc.

There is a page with all of the active pilot’s status badges here -> http://www.virtualaca.net/index.php/status

And they are also located in each pilots profile like here -> http://www.virtualaca.net/index.php/profile/view/1

I have been debating with myself about releasing this in some way…

Dave,

Put it on your site at a cost, ill be the first in line to buy that script

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ive tried doing the same thing however fivedev have disabled the “fopen” command so trying to figure out how to open the image to be edited…

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sorry to mislead ppl here, its the url fopen thats disabled… will re-check the code to make sure i wasnt using a url parth to the file, but i know i had an error on the lines of: " URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/imgvirtu/public_htm"

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here was my code maybe that will help.

$file = ‘./lib/pirep_charts/’.$pirepid.‘_Alt.xml’;
$write = fopen($file, “w”);

// do some stuff and fill $_xml with what I want to write (obviously I was writing xml files)

fwrite($write, $_xml);

fclose($write);

Cheers will give it ago thanks for that!

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url_fopen is disabled, you should use CURL instead, or CodonWebService

I can enable url_fopen, I have to see first

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@Mark

I will have a release ready by the end of the week, maybe sooner. I just need to clear out the aca stuff.

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Dave your a top man. working like a charm

FWX001 Have you set up the cron job?

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I bought the status badge script but for me the status does not change!

where do I set up the automatic update

Regards

FWX001

look here:

http://pirep.fwx-va.de/index.php/status

There are links for instructions and support included within the email you received the script in.

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Looks great! I do hope do buy the module someday.

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If you can not run a cronn job there is a site written in php that will let you schedule jobs like a cron when your page is hit, I will have a look to see if i can find it.

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Good work once again

Nice one

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OK so here is the site to automate stuff if you dont have access to cron jobs.

http://www.phpjobscheduler.co.uk/

You can setup your file system backup to your databases, its easy to setup and understand although i have not used it for over a year or so but it worked fine for me when i used it.