Re: Urgent please help

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

Aqa...@ao... writes:

> I have created a weather site, but was looking for something that
> could collect data for free, but everyone wanted to charge me.
>
> I knew that that wasn't right, and that there had to be software
> available for free, to collect weather conditions for all over the
> world.

The data comes from the National Weather Service, you can also
download them for free from:

  http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml

PHP Weather downloads these reports, parses them and presents the
output in several languages.

> I have windows xp home edition and don't have a personal webserver,
> only a website.

Okay, that should be enough if the website supports PHP.

> I need some easy to understand instructions on how to put the right
> files onto my website's server.
>
> I don't understand what unter the tarball means?  do i have to
> upload every file that i have download to my website's server?  and
> how do i create a page to bring up the weather information for this?
> your replay and help would be highly appreciated.

Since you don't know what a "tarball" is, then you should probably use
a zipfile instead (a tarball is much the same as a zipfile, it just
don't use the zip program). Download the zipfile and unpack it:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z47213744

You then upload all the files to your webserver, put them in a new
directory called "phpweather" or something like that. You should then
be able to load the index.php file (in the new directory) from your
server.

If you have access to a database, then you can configure PHP Weather
to use this to speed things up, but it isn't mandatory.

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