Re: phpweather: stations.csv parsing script

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

Eric Vaughan <eva...@pu...> writes:

> -Gimpster and phpWeather-
>
> I downloaded your script for phpweather a few days ago and really
> saw potential for its use.  Especially with its convenient METAR
> data parsing.

Yes, that's really the core functionality of PHP Weather.

> I have been looking at the stations.csv file and have written a php
> script that completely parses out the data and creates a .sql file
> to be used to import all of the ICAO codes, countries, stations into
> a SQL database (MySQL, of course).  Let me know if you are
> interested in such a script.

Sure, you can upload it as a patch to SourceForge:

  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=377954&group_id=23245

but the functionality is already there in PHP Weather, it's just
burried in config/make_db.php and the insert_stations functions found
in the MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. backends.

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