After several months of work Airbana Version 3 is now live!
You can access the site here: www.Airbana.co.uk
You no longer need to signup to Add Sites, receive SMS’s or anything like that. Information such as your mobile number is stored on your local computer (cookies for those who care).
There is a lot more AJAX in the site now so it should feel a lot smoother and there is now an array of servers in the back end of things to keep it running fast.
The XMLRPC functionality is now complete so whenever someone clicks on the ‘Prices’ link for a site in Airbana the XMLRPC function will trigger and request http://yoururl/xmlrpc.php and render those prices straight into the Airbana interface ensuring you have the very latest prices on show! For those of you who don’t want to get involved in programming just use the Airbana XMLRPC Generator and upload it to your site!
I’ve put together a how-to that for the moment should whet your appetite for when the site goes fully live and help new users in the long run.
Version 3 also includes an Application Programming Interface which will allow you to expose / utilise Airbana Functionality on your own sites (or Desktop widgits / whatever). Version 3.1 of the API (already in progress) will allow remote clients to trigger push elements (changing elements in the database) and User Comms (sending SMS’s etc).
Users with standards compliant browsers (firefox, opera etc) will be able to make use of the ‘One Click Co-ordinates’ feature when adding a site, simply click on ‘Add Site’, zoom into where your site is then right click, the co-ordinates are saved and you are onto Stage 2!
In response to the defacement attack earlier in the month I’ve had to resort to using Captcha’s on some elements of the site.
Adding Event Dates (Retail sites can have ‘events’ now too!) is now simplified, the map is now also capable of displaying multiple events for one site in a given time period (oversight of mine). You can also edit Event Details upto and including the date of the event. Events that have happened in the past can not be edited.