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Two nice add-ons for Diving Log

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Today I want to show you two nice add-ons for Diving Log. Both tools were created by Diving Log users and add some great features, which are currently not available in Diving Log. The first one is “Facebook Uploader“, which lets you post any dive from your logbook to your Facebook wall. It creates a profile picture and uploads the picture together with some dive data to your Facebook account. Andrew Forget, the developer of this add-on, is looking for translators for other languages. Currently it is available in English and German.

Facebook Post

Profile Picture

The 2nd add-on is “GeoTag“, which lets you pick the dive site coordinates within Google Earth, or optionally extracts them out of a geo-tagged photo file (created by a GPS equipped camera). That is great for those who don’t have a GPS device or GPS equipped smartphone. Just open the tool and pick for any dive site in your logbook the coordinates in Google Earth. Thanks to RenĂ© for this great tool!

GeoTag Window

Google Earth

You can add both add-ons to the “Tools” menu in Diving Log (GeoTag adds itself automatically when you launch it the first time manually). To add the Facebook Uploader, click “Manage External Tools” and then “Add” and naviate to “C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\AndyDragon Software\Diving Log Software”.

External Tools

Online Dive Logs

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Today I want to show you 2 amazing open source online dive logs which have emerged from the MySQL export function included in Diving Log. The MySQL export allows you to either export a MySQL dump text file from your Diving Log logbook file, which you can import with phpMyAdmin, for example. Or you can upload directly to your MySQL database when your provider allows external access (not every hoster does allow it). With this export/upload and one (or both) of the php logbooks you can host your logbook online on your webserver.

The 1st project phpDivingLog was started by Olaf van Zandwijk, improved by Lloyd Borrett and is now developed by Rob Lensen (logbook). There is also a thread in the Diving Log support forum.

phpDivingLog dive list

phpDivingLog dive list

phpDivingLog dive profile

phpDivingLog dive profile

The 2nd project is Diving Log Online which was just released by Vasco NL (website). It has currently 3 templates (themes), but you can create also your own.

Diving Log Online blue theme

Diving Log Online blue theme

Diving Log Online black theme

Diving Log Online black theme

Diving Log Online cave theme

Diving Log Online cave theme

Both projects can be used together on the same server (in different directories) and use the same data from the database. You need a web server (shared or self hosted), PHP and a MySQL database. External access to the database enables the direct upload from Diving Log, otherwise you must export to the dump file. This is a great way to get your dives online!