Re: More documentation or archived info

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

"GREGG HALES" <gr...@ki...> writes:

Hi Gregg

> does anyone have more concise documentation. Have tried to access
> the link to archive section on sourceforge, but always get the
> message that the archive is restricted to members of the group only.

I've just tried accessing the SourceForge archives of phpweather-devel
without being logged in and it worked.

There's also a bit of documentation available here

  http://phpweather.sourceforge.net/phpweather/docs/

I don't know how much of a help this is though, for you should also
have received those documents in the tarball/zipfile you've
downloaded.

> Just want a bit of guidance. Want to display multiple locations, as
> pulling info into another program result page.

If you can get PhpWeather do display one report, then it shouldn't be
difficult to display two :-).  Either make another phpweather object
with a different ICAO or change the ICAO with the set_icao() method.
Then create new pw_text_xx and pw_icons objects from the phpweather
object.

> Have experimented with mysql, but does not appear to be updating
> info, has anyone got mysql working, and if so, what did you find
> requiring alteration.

MySQL should be working... what are the exact problems you're seeing?

> Secondly, what areas do we need to alter, to alter the complete
> return of results. Unless I have missed something completely, there
> is no short cut for this, in the form of a template file. Due to
> size of visible area restraint, all we want is abbreviated wording
> and images like:

> n_1cloud_norain.gif || few clouds
> see.gif || Wind: E/SE
> temphigh.gif || Temp: 27=B0C
>
> Any quick pointers to which files to look at quickly and code to
> alter would be greatly appreciated.

You should write your own code that picks the data out of the array
returned by the decode_metar() method in the phpweather class.

The problem is basically that PhpWeather has grown out of the ad-hoc
textual report I used when I first wrote it.  Because the report tries
to string something together that can be considered sentences, it's
rather ackward to use the individual parts...

There's also a lot of translations now which makes it a bit difficult
to change things radically.

Perhaps we should start over with a PhpWeather version 3?  I've
certainly learned a lot since version 2, both about how object
oriented programming should be done, but also about things like clever
new template systems.

> As would access to the archive section, as the answer is probably
> already in there.

Doesn't the archive at SourceForge work?

  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=3D2219

I'm not very fond of the webinterface, but I believe it's working...

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