VATSIM Pilot Data pull

[joeholden]

Hi Guys,

On our site, when in the registration process, the pilot has to enter their VATSIM CiD.

Once registered, that data gets passed to the back-end for the pilot to get accepted/rejected, and the CiD they entered is displayed, my question is, is there a piece of code or API out there that will display the pilots name from VATSIM on the back-end VMS so we can check the name they entered in our system corresponds with that of the VATSIM account.

Thanks,

Joe

[servetas]

You can use this link:

https://cert.vatsim.net/cert/vatsimnet/idstatus.php?cid=xxxxxxx

Where xxxxxxx you should replace it with the pilot's vatsim cid. You can create a code which will get the data from this page and place it on your website. Unfortunately, i have never worked with xml so i can't help you more.

George

[Vangelis]

This is a function that i created for you just copy the file in /core/common

and call it with

echo vatsimpilotchk::search_pilot_online(Here you need to put somehow the vatsim id);

this will bring the last name and first time from vatsim cert server

vatsimpilotchk.class.php

[joeholden]

Thank you Vangelis, I will try this now!

servetas, thanks for your reply!

Joe