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[Ismail El Moussati]

Hello dear friends,

 

I am looking for api key or source picture to get active ATC in specified FIR.

 

for example status.vatsim.net/GM.png - GM = GMMM FIR = Casablanca FIR all ATC connected in Morocco airspace will be shown, also if this option available i'd like to know if it's available for PILOT callsings.

 

Thanks in advance,

[Daniel Hawton]

Hello dear friends,

 

I am looking for api key or source picture to get active ATC in specified FIR.

 

for example status.vatsim.net/GM.png - GM = GMMM FIR = Casablanca FIR all ATC connected in Morocco airspace will be shown, also if this option available i'd like to know if it's available for PILOT callsings.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

One doesn't exist for that.

[Ismail El Moussati]

Thank you for your anwser

[Joseph Donat]

I've used the VATEUD API for things like this.

For stations in Morocco: http://api.vateud.net/online/atc/gm.xml

For pilots flying inbound/outbound of Moroccan airports (Excluding the southern provinces): http://api.vateud.net/online/pilots/gm.xml

 

You'll want to filter out any observers, I do this like so.

       foreach ($xml as $controller):
               $xploded = explode('_', $controller->callsign);
               if (strlen($xploded[0]) == 4){
                       if (in_array(end($xploded), array('DEL','GND','TWR', 'APP', 'DEP', 'CTR', 'FSS'), true)){

 

This is the link to the code I used to do this on the old ACCNAF website, it's not perfect, but it should get the job done. http://pastebin.com/35xePjJn

[samuel nygaard]

where can you add the api link here becuse i have api with xml how could i use it on the site and how to filter them out like who have bokked

foreach ($xml as $controller):

$xploded = explode('_', $controller->callsign);

if (strlen($xploded[0]) == 4){

if (in_array(end($xploded), array('DEL','GND','TWR', 'APP', 'DEP', 'CTR', 'FSS'), true)){

[Yanick Coulombe 965064]

Hi, I recently created what you are asking.

This is my source code, hope this can help (not optimised)

https://github.com/rt-2/CZUL-Controllers-Online

[Raihan Shahzad 1208205]

Hi, I recently created what you are asking.

This is my source code, hope this can help (not optimised)

https://github.com/rt-2/CZUL-Controllers-Online

I found this script very useful, currently updating it for West Asia Division

[Raihan Shahzad 1208205]

Script by Yanick Coulombe has been customized and available at VATWA, showing Online ATC, Arrivals & Departures in/out of West Asia Division including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Maldives; please navigate to https://www.vatwa.net/online

 

Some airline logos might not appear due to certain reasons, such as:

- Airline logo not in VATWA database

- Pilot flying with IATA callsign instead of ICAO callsign

- Pilot flying with Aircraft Registration

- Unknown airlines or Pilot's custom callsign

[Israel Reyes]

On 12/11/2019 at 2:58 AM, Yanick Coulombe 965064 said:

Hi, I recently created what you are asking.

This is my source code, hope this can help (not optimised)

https://github.com/rt-2/CZUL-Controllers-Online

Nice setup. I was able to recede it for my FIR. Works great.

[Yanick Coulombe 965064]

On 12/28/2019 at 9:04 AM, Raihan Shahzad 1208205 said:

Script by Yanick Coulombe has been customized and available at VATWA, showing Online ATC, Arrivals & Departures in/out of West Asia Division including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & Maldives; please navigate to https://www.vatwa.net/online

 

Some airline logos might not appear due to certain reasons, such as:

- Airline logo not in VATWA database

- Pilot flying with IATA callsign instead of ICAO callsign

- Pilot flying with Aircraft Registration

- Unknown airlines or Pilot's custom callsign

 

27 minutes ago, Israel Reyes said:

Nice setup. I was able to recede it for my FIR. Works great.

Thanks, I'm proud I could help other FIRs.
I really like https://www.vatwa.net/online where there is also logos being shown. It might be a good addition to the Github for others to enjoy, maybe as an option.

Anything that you guys needed to modify in order to make it work might be a good addition to the original repository.

Thanks for using my code and have a good day!

Edited May 12, 2020 at 04:04 PM by Yanick Coulombe 965064

[Israel Reyes]

8 hours ago, Yanick Coulombe 965064 said:

 

Thanks, I'm proud I could help other FIRs.
I really like https://www.vatwa.net/online where there is also logos being shown. It might be a good addition to the Github for others to enjoy, maybe as an option.

Anything that you guys needed to modify in order to make it work might be a good addition to the original repository.

Thanks for using my code and have a good day!

I took a simple approach to it. I placed it on its page as designed and than iframed the whole thing into our front page. https://santodomingo.vatcar.org

I was wondering, if the script could be made to incorporate how long the controllers have been online. I think that would be a nice touch to it.

[Yanick Coulombe 965064]

14 hours ago, Israel Reyes said:

I took a simple approach to it. I placed it on its page as designed and than iframed the whole thing into our front page. https://santodomingo.vatcar.org

I also use it the same way (Iframe to home page) on our FIR's website http://czulfir.com

14 hours ago, Israel Reyes said:

I was wondering, if the script could be made to incorporate how long the controllers have been online. I think that would be a nice touch to it.

This is all the possible information given by VATSIM (https://github.com/rt-2/CZUL-Controllers-Online/blob/master/ControllersOnline/resources/api.lib.inc.php) and any of those could be implemented easily.

[Andrew Ogden]

Perhaps you've already solved your problem, but here's an alternate suggestion. By using the vatsimphp module (this may be updated in the future to be less ancient 😉) you can get all controllers, then narrow down by callsign to scan a geographical area (can do the same with pilots and departure/destination airports):
 

// Load VATSIM data
$vatsim = new \Vatsimphp\VatsimData();
$vatsim->loadData();

// Create empty array to store controllers
$controllers = array();

// Search all online controllers
foreach($atc in $vatsim->getControllers()) { 
	if (substr($atc['callsign'], 0, 4) == 'CZQX') { // Check first 4 chars of callsign for identifier
		array_push($controllers, $atc); // Voilà, push to our controller array
	}
}

vatsimphp is quite dense with methods dealing with VATSIM data, I'll leave a link here in case anybody is interested.

https://github.com/skymeyer/Vatsimphp

 

Edited May 13, 2020 at 10:56 PM by Andrew Ogden

[Yanick Coulombe 965064]

15 hours ago, Andrew Ogden said:

Perhaps you've already solved your problem, but here's an alternate suggestion. By using the vatsimphp module (this may be updated in the future to be less ancient 😉) you can get all controllers, then narrow down by callsign to scan a geographical area (can do the same with pilots and departure/destination airports):
 

// Load VATSIM data
$vatsim = new \Vatsimphp\VatsimData();
$vatsim->loadData();

// Create empty array to store controllers
$controllers = array();

// Search all online controllers
foreach($atc in $vatsim->getControllers()) { 
	if (substr($atc['callsign'], 0, 4) == 'CZQX') { // Check first 4 chars of callsign for identifier
		array_push($controllers, $atc); // Voilà, push to our controller array
	}
}

vatsimphp is quite dense with methods dealing with VATSIM data, I'll leave a link here in case anybody is interested.

https://github.com/skymeyer/Vatsimphp

 

Have I known this module when I started my project it could've help.
I might switch to it eventually.
My priority on this project is to add cache. For example if a second user loads the page or if the same user refreshes the page, it shouldn't fetch the information again for like 2-5 minutes

[Israel Reyes]

By chance has this method stopped working? I copied the code I had saved on to one of our community sites, but I am not seen any activity reflected on it. Thank you in advance for the further assistance.

[Yanick Coulombe 965064]

On 6/4/2021 at 1:14 AM, Israel Reyes said:

By chance has this method stopped working? I copied the code I had saved on to one of our community sites, but I am not seen any activity reflected on it. Thank you in advance for the further assistance.

VATSIM changed its data format from plain text to JSON and this code uses the old method and will not work anymore unless someone make the change, sorry.

[Israel Reyes]

35 minutes ago, Yanick Coulombe 965064 said:

VATSIM changed its data format from plain text to JSON and this code uses the old method and will not work anymore unless someone make the change, sorry.

Time to try and find a new resource. Thank you much for the response.