Re: About PHPWeather

[Martin G. <mg...@da...>]

hans leutscher <ha...@mo...> writes:

Hi Hans

> I'm sorry to disturb you, but I have just one simple question.
>
> Which file must I run to get the data?
>
> When I run phpweather.php in my browser, nothing happens, all I get is
> an empty page.

Yes, this file only declares the phpweather class.

Try including the file in some other file and call decode_metar().  A
complete test example:

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');  // Plain text for a simple test.

require('phpweather.php');
$weather =3D new phpweather();
print_r($weather->decode_metar());
?>

Put the above in a file and upload it to your server in the phpweather
folder.

That shows you all the data (in a somewhat raw form) obtained from the
METAR report.  To get a nicely formatted weather report you have to
combine the $weather object with a output object, like this:

<?php
$output_text =3D new pw_text_nl($weather);
$output_text->print_pretty();
?>

> I have spend quite some hours in the discussiongroups, but these
> files are huge, and I cannot find the answer, therefore I write to
> you.

And I'm answering back to the list too, so that others might find the
answer some other time.

I fully agree with you that reading the index.php file supplied with
PHP Weather is far from straight forward...

> The testpage works at: http://www.atelier.box.nl/Hedane/pweather/

So far so good...

> What do I not understand?
>
> (I have also tried the PHP weather script from Matt Wilson, which I
> understand and it works. But I thought your script was better,
> therefore)
>
>
>
> I hope you can help me out
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> best regards
>
> Hans Leutscher

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