Re: Iconize weather info and something else

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Ray van Beek" <r_v...@ho...> writes:

> It works for me too, IE5.0. Great!

Great - if it works in Mozilla and IE, then that will cover most of
the browsers people use. Someone should try with Opera too...

> One suggestion though, you flush the page each time the function
> wait_for_report is called. To me, it seems that that is only
> required once: immediately after the </html> tag. The page is then
> sent to the browser, and the browser can start processing a complete
> page.

I don't know if it's necessary to flush the page so often, but I
wanted to make sure, that the browser gets some data, so that it can
begin rendering the page.

I believe that I've read about a case, where they had to send several
empty lines to the browser before it "got the message" and started
rendering. But I haven't done any tests of things like that, so we'll
probably have to adjust this later.

> [...]
>
> What I would like to do in the coming days is creating a table that
> maps the different icon files to a Sky Cover/Precipitation
> combination table. A <IMG SRC=icon.php> construction in the webpage
> calls the icon.php function. This function then searches the table
> for the proper image file, that is then returned directly. To keep
> this mechanism 'tunable', the names of the icons files are entered
> in a include file. If someone likes to take his own set of icons, he
> only has to change the file names in the include file. As far as I
> can see it, the icon.php function can use the internal results of
> the phpweather script.

It sounds like a good approach, but how should it work, if people just
specify <IMG SRC="icon.php">? Don't you mean something like this <IMG
SRC="<?php weather_icon() ?>"> 
 
> Like I said, I will start my first experiments probably this week, I
> keep you informed.

Great. I think it would be a good idea to split this code out into
another file, so that people can include it if needed. The 'old' code
in PHP Weather really needs to be split up into several files, or even
better: we should move to the 'new' version in CVS and work on that.

It's been a long time since I've looked at the code, but as I remember
it, it does most of the things the 'old' code does, and it does it
better (more detailed, more special cases, etc...)

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