Upload graphics and scripts

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

Ray sent this message to the list, but it was stopped because it was
too big - I'm resending it without the files attached. The files are
now in CVS, take a look here:

  http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/phpweather/phpweather-1.x/

> Hi all!
>
> It took me a while, but please find the weather icons and the
> accompanying script images.inc enclosed. Martin, if you want, you
> can add these to the phpweather project.

Of course I want to add these files to the project! Thanks a lot!
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> To use the icons, include the images.inc and the regular phpweather
> files (locale_**.inc and phpweather.inc). The images.inc script
> contains all filenames and the images path.

Great - I've changed it a bit to include the images from a 'icons'
subdirectory.
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> The images.inc script relies heavily on the phpweather code: it
> expects that the metar has already been decoded by process_metar().
> The images.inc script contains a function that converts the wind
> speed in [m/s] to Beauforts. I don't know about the rest of the
> world but in the Netherlands windspeed is often expressed in
> Beaufort. IMHO, I think that the Beaufort unit should be part of the
> already existing knots/milesperhour/kilometersperhour function in
> phpweather.inc. In that case, the function can be deleted from
> images.inc.

You're right - it should probably be part of the output. But this is a
more general problem: there's more unit-systems in use today than the
metric and imperial. Some people like a mixture of those two systems,
so the best thing would be, if we could support a wide range of units,
so that people could chose their preferred unit for each bit of the
report.

> During development of images.inc I made a very simple and small
> script (list.php) that shows all available associative array
> elements. This way I could check the operation of the images.inc
> functions. The list.php is included as well.

Nice - some people have asked for such a tool. I've changed it
slightly so that the output looks more like what you get by using the
print_r() call in PHP4.
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> I included a demo page as well: table.php. This page shows all
> available icons and some explanation.

That's really good.
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> Finally, I was wondering if the phpweather can be changed such that
> it 'understands' the /////KT notation on wind (and other groups), as
> is discussed in the 'Funny chars in metar?' thread in this list. I
> still haven't seen a spec on that, but apparently the notation
> *does* exist.
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> I did not want to add this in CVS, because I'm not familiar with it:
> I'm only starting in Linux.
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> Have fun!
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> Ray

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