Re: Getting Data from Personal Weather Stations

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

"Jake Ortman" <ja...@or...> writes:

Hi Jake

> I've got a simple implementation of PHPWeather 2.x running here:
> http://www.sunrayinc.com/sunriver/weather/
>
> Nothing fancy, just shows the current conditions (cached in a MySQL
> database).

Good.

> I recently found out that the local public works department has a
> weather station
> http://www.sunriverowners.org/05_departments/public_works/pw_frame.html)
> that's also available on Weather Underground:
> http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KORSUNRI1.
> Would there be an easy way to pull that data to use on my site?

Not with PhpWeather... PhpWeather knows how to parse a METAR report,
but you're trying to parse a webpage :-)

You could try to extract the information from the website with the
help of regular expressions, but it would be a mess, and you would
violate the copyright of the page too.

I think your best bet is to contact the maintainer (Steve Runner?) and
ask him how he collects the data. Perhaps you could get access to the
data in a comma separated file or something like that.

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PHP Weather => Shows the current weather on your webpage and
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