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

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

Carsten Klapp <car...@ma...> writes:

> 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.

Cool! I've been looking a little at the WikiWikiWeb concept and I like
it - the idea that everyone is able to correct and improve the pages
by editing them is great.
 
> 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.

Yes - you're right. It's kind of wrong that the report is output
instead of being returned as a string.
 
> 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);
>
> //...
> 
> ?>

The above approach looks good...
 
> 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.

I've already rewritten PHP Weather with classes - see the code in CVS
here:

  http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=23245
 
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