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Posts from ‘May, 2009’

Dynamic Javascript localization with Gettext and PHP

Disclaimer: The following is intolerably technical and doesn’t really have anything at all to do with flying.  Non-geeks, please head straight for the emergency exit.
Now, for the few brave people who are actually interested in the intricacies of Javascript localization…
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State of the Data at 100,000 flights

One hundred thousand!  (100,588 as I type this, to be quite precise.)  That’s how many flights have now been entered into OpenFlights.  Let’s see how the current statistics compare to what we had at 50,000 just a few short months back, shall we?
Top 10 Airlines

Airline
50k rank
World rank

1
United Airlines
1
2

2
Lufthansa
2
6

3
Continental Airlines
4 (+1)
4

4
American Airlines
3 (-1)
1

5
Delta Air Lines
5
2

6
British Airways
7 […]

Banners, blog badges and forum signatures

Some of our users have been asking for a way to add OpenFlights stats to their websites, blogs or forum signatures.  Wait no longer, banners are now here!  Here’s mine:

Banner contents update automatically every hour.  They can be used with HTML markup (used by web and blog pages):
<a href=’http://openflights.org/user/yourname‘ target=’_blank’><img src=’http://openflights.org/banner/yourname.png’ width=400 height=70></a>
With PHPbb markup […]