Re: Refreshin the data

[Phil P. <phi...@sw...>]

Given that you're not using any database, as far as I know it'll 
download the latest METAR every time.

HUGE impact on page generation time (on the order of a second or two, 
most likely).

Even using the database (MySQL), I wasn't happy with the performance 
(though most likely that was MySQL blocking issues with the millions of 
other users at my ISP), so I wrote a small scripthack to cache the HTML 
I produced.

I've since stumbled across the PEAR CacheLite module, and will (one day) 
re-code using that. (http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=99)

Check it out :-)

http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~Phil.Pierotti/

If you read the page generation times at the bottom, it's not insanely 
fast. Then again my ISP doesn't use any PHP OpCode cache technology, so 
every page (half-a-dozen scripts each, mostly) is reloaded from the 
filesystem+parsed_for_includes+compiled *for every page-view*. Given 
that *and* the 4 MySQL queries on every page (in the traffic summary 
box) I'm not terribly unhappy so far.

Enjoy,
Phil P

aguevara wrote:
> I have downloaded php weather and have started using it, I am not using 
> the DB (I am not concerned about caching the information quite yet). My 
> question is, does the weather data get updated every time I load my web 
> page. If not, how do I make/force that to happen ?
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> Very complete app, I really like it !. I am using it to display my 
> city’s weather in Maturin, Venezuela on my main page while also allowing 
> visitors to go to another page to select and look at their country’s, 
> city’s weather.
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> Please advise.
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> Have a great day,
> *Angelo A. Guevara*
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> an...@ca... <mailto:an...@ca...@eds.com>
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