Re: Gimpster.com: Home > PHP > PHP Weather > Support

[Carsten K. <car...@ma...>]

Hi,

PhpWeather is really cool!

I started writing a PhpWeather plugin for PhpWiki, so it can call 
PHPWeather. I have a suggestion which might make PhpWeather easier to 
include in other web sites.

In order to arbitrarily embed the output from PhpWeather at a specific 
location on the page, it would be helpful if the entire weather code could 
be wrapped up in a single function, so the user would only have to worry 
about 1 include. The function would also return the result as a string 
rather than using print to try to do the output itself.

Such a function could be called something like this:

<?php
// my great php application
$icao = "CYYZ";
$language = 'en';
$format = 'metar';
$name = "Toronto Pearson Int\'l Airport / Ontario, Canada";

require_once('phpweather.inc');
$weather = PHPWeather($icao, $format, $language, $name);

// somewhere, deep in the web site...
printf("<table summary="Local weather via PHPWeather"><tr><td>%s</td></tr>
</table>", $weather);
?>

// inside 'phpweather.inc'...
<?php
// PHPWeather wrapper function

/**
  * This is a convenience wrapper function for PHPWeather
  */
function PHPWeather($icao, $format = 'pretty', $language = 'en', $name = '
') {

     include(sprintf('locale_%s.inc', $language));

     switch ($format) {
         case 'pretty':
		    return pretty_print_metar($icao, $format, $language, $name);
		    break;
         case 'metar':
		    return get_metar($icao);
		    break;
	}
	//...etc
}

?>

The whole phpweather.inc probably could be rewritten using classes too, 
but I haven't had time to delve inside the code yet, PhpWiki keeps me busy.

Carsten
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