Hello phpVMS community!
My name is Jacob and I have been working on an addon for Nabeel’s wonderful system for the past few weeks and I decided to go ahead and make an announcement towards its expected completion date.
The addon is something of a first for phpVMS, as we have yet to see a well structured admin plugin (if any at all) that interacts with the database and the client side fluently. This addon provides the ability for an airline’s administration to add three different types of data (spanning three tables) to the database. Now before we get down and dirty with the details, let me start with a short introduction as to what it is and how it got started.
What is PilotShop?
PilotShop started as a one module addon that did nothing more than give the pilot the ability to use his/her money to purchase pre-planned items and add them to their portfolio. It died on my development site the week after its development was officially announced here on the forums. After a recent push from the community, I decided to pick it back up and apply my new knowledge towards it to make an overall great addon for phpVMS.
Features?
- Admin side interface
- Expansive options
- Shops, products, shop types, product types etc.
- Client side interface
- Buy products, manage products, arrange products etc.
- A new pilot “Home”, allowing for pilots to add items to different shelves and closets to help better organize their purchases.
- Completely run by the airline administration! Thus no content is restricted or limited, the sky is the limit
- Associate a description, image, price, availability status etc.
- Built using the phpVMS design flow ( No messy unreadable code )
- Easily extended, using the expansive PilotShopData.class model
And of course more is always to come, post first release..
Expected release date: 02/01/2010 at 12:00AM
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Now that we have covered what it is and what you can expect upon release, let us get to today’s update!
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Day 1
January 14, 2010
The admin interface for the most part is complete. I am going to go back and change a few things in the code that will do nothing more than clean up the source, improve load times and memory usage. I have started on the crucial buy function that will end up being one of the bigger functions in the PilotShopData.class.php file. Now I’m sure many of you are either curious or just skeptical on how the final product will look… Well right now I’m going to show you what ShopAdmin will look like for the most part.
Main Overview
For a larger version click http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8428/prev1d.jpg
Add dialogs
For a larger version click http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1338/prev3m.jpg
Associated dialog
For a larger version click http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5816/prev5.jpg
Well that pretty much concludes today’s release! I hope all of you have enjoyed this release and have gained something out of it in its entirety. If you have any questions or comments that do not directly involve the addon or it’s development, please send me a PM. If you wish to help or want to become a beta tester for either aspect of the system, e-mail me at kritikdevelopment@gmail.com.
With regards,
Jacob Krustchinsky
NOTE: If you are thinking about posting and you have not read the post in its entirety .. STOP .. I do not put effort into a post to have random and easily questions thrown back at me. If you have CC or positive comments feel free to post. Anything that is hasty, negative or detrimental to the addons succession will be reported. Keep it clean and on-topic so this thread can be read by everyone.
