cron for top pilots

[RogerB]

Mark, a while back you made a post about flight report delay with kacars. You removed the listener for top pilots and made it a cron. Can you share how you did that?

[joeri]

http://forum.phpvms.net/topic/6776-filing-pireps-delays-solved/#entry50916 isn't this what you are looking for

[RogerB]

That code isn't doing the trick, since I removed the listener and cronned that code it's still not working. I'm getting a sytax error and top pilot isn't updating now.

[Guest lorathon]

Roger,

Sorry but I do not use the module. I am sure that Mark should be able to help you out.

[mark1million]

HI Roger yes it wasn't specific to kACARS it was when any pirep was filed.

I tracked it down to the top pilot module, I think David was going to release a fix for it not sure if he updated or not yet.

Basically this is what i did, removed the listener >Core>Modules>TopPilot like this at the top section,

<?php
//by:simpilot
//www.simpilotgroup.com

class TopPilot extends CodonModule {

public $title = 'Top Pilots';

//public function __construct() {
// CodonEvent::addListener('TopPilot', array('pirep_filed'));
//}
public function EventListener($eventinfo) {
if($eventinfo[0] == 'pirep_filed') {
self::refresh_pilot_stats();
}
}

Then i put that function in to a php file in the admin directory,

<?php

define('ADMIN_PANEL', true);
include dirname(dirname(__FILE__)).'/core/codon.config.php';
Auth::$userinfo->pilotid = 0;
/*
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
*/
set_time_limit(0);
ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');

TopPilot::refresh_pilot_stats();
echo 'Top Pilot Stats Updated';

?>

Then set up the cron the same way as its usually run for maintenance.

php -f /srv/www/xxx/xxx/admin/YOUR_FILE_NAME.php

Just change the YOUR_FILE_NAME.php to whatever you call the file you create and should be good to go.

[RogerB]

Thanks Mark, think I got it.

[RogerB]

Getting a message no input file selected...I have never run a cron before so I'm totally lost. I'll do some reading up.

[mark1million]

Ok so first thing call the page directly in your browser to see if it works, then you can add it as a cron or a timed script, there are other ways to get that to run without a cron if you dint have access.

[RogerB]

I got it, had the path wrong. works now. Thanks Mark!!

[mark1million]

Glad to help Roger.

[Cor]

Tnx Mark,

Works very good

Regards,

Cor