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PHP Weather 2?

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

Hi everybody

As those of you who follow the phpweather-checkins mailing list will
know, I've been adding and deleting files from CVS today. I've also
made a number of small corrections.

My plan is to finally make a release of the code in CVS. I've been
using it on Gimpster.com for some months now without problems.

I'm very happy with most of the code, although I've discovered that
the text output can be improved. The 'problem' is that many of the
strings are put together like this:

  $output = $strings['foo'] . $var_a .
            $strings['bar'] . $var_b .
            $strings['baz'] . $var_c;

instead of this

  $output = sprintf($strings['foobarbaz'], $var_a, $var_b, $var_c);

The advantage of the last method is, that the translator can make
$var_c come before $var_a in the final string. Changing this requires
updates of the translations, but it shouldn't be that hard to do since
it's mostly a matter of moving and combining existing strings.

There's also currently three open bug reports, but they're not too
serious. And if we wait until all bugs are fixed, then we'll never be
able to release anything.

So, please update from CVS and see if you can spot any problems. Mail
back tomorrow with your comments.

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Re: Cache

[Greg L. <web...@wv...>]

On 8/26/2002 at 12:48 PM Martin Geisler wrote:

>Martin Geisler <gim...@gi...> writes:
>
>> You have to create the databases as described in index.php before
>> you can use a MySQL database.
>
>Argh! I meant to say demo.php - sorry... (It's darn confusing when the
>filenames have changed between the versions... the code in CVS uses
>index.php as the entry-point.)
>

Martin,

I did set up the database but your message caused me to double check
everything closer. I found that I had specified the table name rather than
the database name in the config file. It's working now.

Thanks,
Greg

Re: Cache

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

Martin Geisler <gim...@gi...> writes:

> You have to create the databases as described in index.php before
> you can use a MySQL database.

Argh! I meant to say demo.php - sorry... (It's darn confusing when the
filenames have changed between the versions... the code in CVS uses
index.php as the entry-point.)

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Re: Cache

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

"Greg LaBrec" <wv...@wv...> writes:

> Has anyone been able to get caching to work? Are there any tips that
> might help? I am particularly confused by the references to naming
> the configuration file. There are separate references that say it
> should be called one of the following: config.inc, config.php, or
> defaults.inc. Is that where I'm going wrong?

Maybe, but I can understand that you're confused with all those
different filenames. They belong to different versions of PHP Weather.
The errors below talk about phpweather.inc and that tells me that
you're using version 1.6x or something like that, i.e. one of the
versions you can download at SourceForge.

To configure your version, you'll start with the file config-dist.inc.
If you don't have this file, then please download the latest version
(1.61) from SourceForge:

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23245

Copy the file config-dist.inc to config.inc and then change the
options in config.inc. Delete the lines from config.inc that you don't
change. The idea is that config-dist.inc is distributed with each new
release of PHP Weather whereas your private config.inc isn't. The
config-dist.inc file is read first, and then config.inc is read so
that your changes can override the options in config-dist.inc. 

> The only thing I seem to be able to get any results out of is
> changing the flags in the config-dist.inc file.

Yes, that works. But the next time you upgrade config-dist.inc will be
overwritten by the default one - if you copy it to config.inc it will
survive the upgrade.
 
> Here are the messages I get:
> 
> MySQL-----
> Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result
> resource in /home/wvfc/wvfc-www/wxphp/phpweather.inc on line 391

You have to create the databases as described in index.php before you
can use a MySQL database.
 
> DBM database-----
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dbmopen() in
> /home/wvfc/wvfc-www/wxphp/phpweather.inc on line 34

Your version of PHP doesn't have support for dbm database.
 
> XML-----
> XML file does not exist or we couldn't open it for read/write!

Hmm? I'm not sure about that one...

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Cache

[Greg L. <wv...@wv...>]

Has anyone been able to get caching to work? Are there any tips that might
help? I am particularly confused by the references to naming the
configuration file. There are separate references that say it should be
called one of the following: config.inc, config.php, or defaults.inc. Is
that where I'm going wrong? The only thing I seem to be able to get any
results out of is changing the flags in the config-dist.inc file.

Here are the messages I get:

MySQL-----
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result
resource in /home/wvfc/wvfc-www/wxphp/phpweather.inc on line 391

DBM database-----
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dbmopen() in
/home/wvfc/wvfc-www/wxphp/phpweather.inc on line 34

XML-----
XML file does not exist or we couldn't open it for read/write!

I have tried chmod 666 and 777 in different combinations on the wxphp
directory and the cache.xml file.

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate it.

Thanks In Advance,
Greg

Re: strange error

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

"Ray Saldana III" <ab...@co...> writes:

> In running the demo file on the new control panel, I get this
> curious error messages, but=A0 still get the weather reports, any
> ideas? On the second one, I did not include the Spanish include
> file. It is almost like a closing is missing, the same files work
> perfectly on the Apache server I have installed on my personal
> machine.

The problem is that the PHP guys have changed the way the pow()
function works: it used to accept something like this

$v =3D pow('1.5', 2);

but it will nolonger convert the string into a float. Use (float)
infront of the arguments in the lines that cause trouble should help
with this:

$v =3D pow((float)'1.5', 2);

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[ phpweather-Feature Requests-599335 ] Windspeed in beaufort

[<no...@so...>]

Feature Requests item #599335, was opened at 2002-08-23 17:10
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Category: Output
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Koen Lenaers (klennie)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Windspeed in beaufort

Initial Comment:
Hi!

I use phpWeather on the website of a windsurfing club 
(http://www.sirocco.tk in dutch however) and I like it a 
lot!  However it would be realy nice to have the 
windspeed expressed in beaufort too since a lot of the 
surfers use this scale to measure the wind speed.  I 
could modifie the code for myself, but that serves 
nobody else.

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[ phpweather-Feature Requests-597732 ] Sun / Moon picture

[<no...@so...>]

Feature Requests item #597732, was opened at 2002-08-21 00:20
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Category: Output
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Geoff Lankow (darktrojan)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Sun / Moon picture

Initial Comment:
Output the sun or the moon pictures based on the local 
time of the metar - not the server time, also be able to 
display times as local times in the text output.

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strange error

[Ray S. I. <ab...@co...>]

In running the demo file on the new control panel, I get this curious =
error messages, but  still get the weather reports, any ideas? On the =
second one, I did not include the Spanish include file. It is almost =
like a closing is missing, the same files work perfectly on the Apache =
server I have installed on my personal machine.

A sample METAR-report

The report below is the latest from Aalborg, Denmark (this is where I =
live). The raw METAR looks this way:
EKYT 142150Z 27008KT 9999 FEW018 17/15 Q1017 NOSIG

Not exactly a pretty sight? Well by using
PHP Weather
you could also present the information like this:

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 849

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 850

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 851

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 852

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 858

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 859

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 860

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 861

110 minutes ago, at 21:50 UTC, the wind was blowing at a speed of 4.1 =
meters per second (9.2 miles per hour) from West in Aalborg, Denmark. =
The temperature
was 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit), and the pressure was =
1,017 hPa (30.03 inHg). The relative humidity was 93.5%. There were a =
few clouds at
a height of 549 meter (1800 feet). The visibility was >11.3 kilometers =
(>7 miles).

Here is the same piece of text with the current weather in Honolulu, =
Hawaii. This time the information is presented in Spanish. First comes =
the raw METAR:
PHNL 142153Z 00000KT 10SM FEW019 27/24 A2997 RMK AO2 RAE49 SLP149 P0001 =
T02670244

and then the pretty-printed output:

Warning: Failed opening 'locale_es.inc' for inclusion =
(include_path=3D'') in /home/rrnet/public_html/demo.php3 on line 100

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 849

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 850

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 851

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 852

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 858

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 859

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 860

Warning: Invalid argument(s) passed to pow() in =
/home/rrnet/public_html/phpweather.inc on line 861

107 minutes ago, at 21:53 UTC, the wind was calm in Honolulu, Hawaii. =
The temperature was 27 degrees Celsius (81 degrees Fahrenheit), and the =
pressure was
1,015 hPa (29.97 inHg). The relative humidity was 92.6%. There were a =
few clouds at a height of 579 meter (1900 feet). The visibility was 16.1 =
kilometers
(10.0 miles).
=20
Ray Saldana III
RRIS
http://www.rottenray.net
http://www.rottenray.com

Re: Night Time Images

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

"Jake Ortman" <ja...@or...> writes:

>>Yes, change the test so that it's correct for your timezone. Use
>>
>>        if (($regs[2] > 1) && ($regs[2] < 13)) {
>>          $night = 1;
>>        }
> 
> That didn't work. It's 11:30 am pacific time right now, and there's
> a moon graphic on the site :-).

Hmm, that's odd. Let me try and explain how I came up with '> 1' and
'< 13'. The Pacific Time Zone is UTC - 7 hours because of Daylight
Saving Time, correct me if I'm wrong, I've got my information from
this page:

  http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/oregon_time_zone.shtml

So a timeline would look like this:

 PDT: 00 ~~~~~~ 06 ------ 12 ------ 18 ~~~~~~ 24

where the ~ marks the hours that belong to the night. The
corresponding UTC timezone is:

 UTC: 07 ~~~~~~ 13 ------ 19 ------ 01 ~~~~~~ 07

So, this means that it's night at your place when the hour is between
7 and 13 UTC or 1 and 7 UTC, i.e., from 1 to 13 UTC. So unless someone
can find an error in the above calculations, then I cannot understand
why it doesn't work for you...

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PHP Weather => Shows the current weather on your webpage and
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[ phpweather-Feature Requests-594304 ] ICAO <=> US Zip code mapping

[<no...@so...>]

Feature Requests item #594304, was opened at 2002-08-13 01:07
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Category: Databases
Group: CVS (bleeding edge)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Martin Geisler (gimpster)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ICAO <=> US Zip code mapping

Initial Comment:
Helge Weissig compiled this file ages ago, but it never
got used in PHP Weather :-/ This is the mail he sent to
the  PHP Weather development list little over a year ago:

Hi,

        I thought it would be nice to add some "weather
by zip code functionality to phpweather. I realize that
this is completely US centric and does not appeal to 
veryone. However, I did the work anyways and put
together two tables that contain a mapping between ICAO
stations and US Zip codes and vice versa. The mapping
was done by locating the closest weather station for
each geographic center of each zip code and conversely
by locating the closest zip code geographic center for
each station.

There are some problems with the direct query by zip
code as not all stations are reliable enough. This
could be circumvented by querying for the closest
stations and retrieving weather information for the
first one with information available.

Send me e-mail if you have any questions. I am not
subscribed to this list, so make sure to address the
e-mail directly to me.

cheers,
h.

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>Comment By: Martin Geisler (gimpster)
Date: 2002-08-13 01:20

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=104098

Hmm... I couldn't upload a 544Kb file here, so I've placed
it at the PHP Weather homepage instead:

  http://phpweather.net/downloads/zipcodes.sql.gz

It will be removed when it is integrated into PHP Weather
and put in CVS so check there if you cannot find the file
using the above link.

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[ phpweather-Feature Requests-594304 ] ICAO <=> US Zip code mapping

[<no...@so...>]

Feature Requests item #594304, was opened at 2002-08-13 01:07
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=377955&aid=594304&group_id=23245

Category: Databases
Group: CVS (bleeding edge)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Martin Geisler (gimpster)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ICAO <=> US Zip code mapping

Initial Comment:
Helge Weissig compiled this file ages ago, but it never
got used in PHP Weather :-/ This is the mail he sent to
the  PHP Weather development list little over a year ago:

Hi,

        I thought it would be nice to add some "weather
by zip code functionality to phpweather. I realize that
this is completely US centric and does not appeal to 
veryone. However, I did the work anyways and put
together two tables that contain a mapping between ICAO
stations and US Zip codes and vice versa. The mapping
was done by locating the closest weather station for
each geographic center of each zip code and conversely
by locating the closest zip code geographic center for
each station.

There are some problems with the direct query by zip
code as not all stations are reliable enough. This
could be circumvented by querying for the closest
stations and retrieving weather information for the
first one with information available.

Send me e-mail if you have any questions. I am not
subscribed to this list, so make sure to address the
e-mail directly to me.

cheers,
h.

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RE: Night Time Images

[Jake O. <ja...@or...>]

>Yes, change the test so that it's correct for your timezone. Use
>
>        if (($regs[2] > 1) && ($regs[2] < 13)) {
>          $night = 1;
>        }

That didn't work. It's 11:30 am pacific time right now, and there's a moon
graphic on the site :-).
-Jake

Re: Night Time Images

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

"Jake Ortman" <ja...@or...> writes:

> This is probably a fairly stupid question that hopefully has a simple fix.

With PHP Weather there's no such thing as a stupid question - new
problems surface regularly... :-)
 
> I'm running a version of 2.0 on my site (I think it's a pre-2.0
> final CVS release, so if it's been fixed in the final release, let
> me know).

There has not been a release of the 2.0 code yet, although it's the
code that I'm using at gimpster.com and at phpweather.net...

> It provides the simple current weather for the area for our rental
> guests (http://www.sunrayinc.com/sunriver/weather/) using a modified
> print_table function. However, as you'll see right now, it's showing
> a nighttime part-cloud graphic, even though it's only 4:30 here
> right now. I tried setting the time offset before, and it didn't
> work (or maybe I didn't set it right?).

No, it's not your fault - it's a problem in pw_images.php at line 266:

      } elseif (ereg('([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})Z', $part, $regs)) {
        if (($regs[2] < 6) || ($regs[2] > 18)) {
          $night = 1;
        }

The regular expression matches the date-part of the METAR and the
if-statement in the next line tries to figure out if it's night or
day... The problem is, that this is calculated using UTC time: a
report made at 16:30 PDT in Oregon (the afternoon) is made at 23:30
UTC which is night-time according to the if-statement above.

> Any body have any ideas?

Yes, change the test so that it's correct for your timezone. Use

        if (($regs[2] > 1) && ($regs[2] < 13)) {
          $night = 1;
        }

instead - that should be correct for the Pacific Time Zone.

This could probably be automated using date('Z')...

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Re: Weather Class

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

"Yavor Shahpasov" <ya...@ni...> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I ended up writing my own class and i "borrowed" the parsing part
> from php weather. I want to submit the class to PEAR (pear.php.net)
> and i just need to know if the author of php weather is OK with that
> . He'll get apropriate credit and even can maintain the class if he
> feels so,

I'll love to see a METAR parsing class in PEAR - even more so, if it's
based on code from PHP Weather :-) I don't know if I'm the right
person to maintain it, as I've never used a class from PEAR before.

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Re: Help, Thanks Jake

[Michael <din...@ea...>]

Jake asked me to pass this along to the group.=20
Michael
From: Jake Ortman=20
To: Michael=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: phpweather-CVS-latest


On that page (http://www.sunrayinc.com/sunriver/weather/), I have this =
in the main content table area:

<?php

require('phpweather.php');
require('pw_utilities.php');

$weather =3D new phpweather(array());

$language =3D "en";

    require(PHPWEATHER_BASE_DIR . "/output/pw_text_$language.php");
    require(PHPWEATHER_BASE_DIR . "/output/pw_images.php");
    $type =3D 'pw_text_' . $language;
    $text =3D new $type($weather, array());

echo $text->print_table() . "<br />\n";

?>

My print_table function looks like so:

  function print_table() {
    // We use our own weather-object.
    $data =3D $this->weather->decode_metar();

    $location =3D $data['location'];

    $date =3D $this->print_pretty_time($data['time']);

    $wind =3D $this->print_pretty_wind($data['wind']);

    $temperature =3D =
$this->print_pretty_temperature($data['temperature']);

    $pressure =3D $this->print_pretty_altimeter($data['altimeter']);

    $humidity =3D =
$this->print_pretty_rel_humidity($data['rel_humidity']);
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 $sky =3D $this->print_pretty_clouds($data['clouds']);
 $icons =3D new pw_images($weather, array());
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    if ($this->properties['orientation'] =3D=3D 'vertical') {

    } else {

 echo '<table align=3D"center" width=3D"100%" cellspacing=3D"0" =
cellpadding=3D"2" border=3D"0">';
 echo '<tr>';
 echo '<td width=3D"20%" align=3D"center">';
 echo '<img src=3D"./skyimage.php?icao=3Dkrdm">';
 echo '</td>';
 echo "<td width=3D\"60%\" align=3D\"center\">$sky $temperature</td>";
 echo '<td width=3D"20%" align=3D"center">';

 echo '<img src=3D"./tempimage.php?icao=3Dkrdm">';

 echo '</td></tr><tr>';
 echo '<td width=3D"20%" align=3D"center">';
 echo '<img src=3D"./windimage.php?icao=3Dkrdm">';
 echo '</td>';
 echo "
    <td colspan=3D\"2\" width=3D\"80%\">$wind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width=3D\"20%\" align=3D\"center\"> </td>
    <td colspan=3D\"2\" width=3D\"80%\">$humidity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width=3D\"20%\" align=3D\"center\"> </td>
    <td colspan=3D\"2\" width=3D\"80%\">$pressure</td>
</tr>
</table>
";


    }

One thing I forgot to mention is that I created duplicates of the =
"currentimage.php" file, editing them for the temp image, sky image, and =
wind image, and called them in my print_table function. That's the only =
way I could get the images to work right (I'm not a whiz PHP guy, I just =
tried it and it worked).

If you'd like, feel free to send that to the list. I don't have the =
list's e-mail address with me (I'm not on my usual computer). If you =
have a solution re: the night time icons, let me know!

-Jake
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Michael [mailto:psa...@ea...]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 6:05 PM
  To: web...@su...
  Subject: phpweather-CVS-latest


  I still dont quite understand this,=20
  How did you get your page to show that information?
  Is there code you can send me to help me?
  Thanks.
  Michael

Fw: phpweather-CVS-latest

[Michael <psa...@ea...>]

From: Jake Ortman=20
To: Michael=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: phpweather-CVS-latest


On that page (http://www.sunrayinc.com/sunriver/weather/), I have this =
in the main content table area:

<?php

require('phpweather.php');
require('pw_utilities.php');

$weather =3D new phpweather(array());

$language =3D "en";

    require(PHPWEATHER_BASE_DIR . "/output/pw_text_$language.php");
    require(PHPWEATHER_BASE_DIR . "/output/pw_images.php");
    $type =3D 'pw_text_' . $language;
    $text =3D new $type($weather, array());

echo $text->print_table() . "<br />\n";

?>

My print_table function looks like so:

  function print_table() {
    // We use our own weather-object.
    $data =3D $this->weather->decode_metar();

    $location =3D $data['location'];

    $date =3D $this->print_pretty_time($data['time']);

    $wind =3D $this->print_pretty_wind($data['wind']);

    $temperature =3D =
$this->print_pretty_temperature($data['temperature']);

    $pressure =3D $this->print_pretty_altimeter($data['altimeter']);

    $humidity =3D =
$this->print_pretty_rel_humidity($data['rel_humidity']);
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 $sky =3D $this->print_pretty_clouds($data['clouds']);
 $icons =3D new pw_images($weather, array());
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    if ($this->properties['orientation'] =3D=3D 'vertical') {

    } else {

 echo '<table align=3D"center" width=3D"100%" cellspacing=3D"0" =
cellpadding=3D"2" border=3D"0">';
 echo '<tr>';
 echo '<td width=3D"20%" align=3D"center">';
 echo '<img src=3D"./skyimage.php?icao=3Dkrdm">';
 echo '</td>';
 echo "<td width=3D\"60%\" align=3D\"center\">$sky $temperature</td>";
 echo '<td width=3D"20%" align=3D"center">';

 echo '<img src=3D"./tempimage.php?icao=3Dkrdm">';

 echo '</td></tr><tr>';
 echo '<td width=3D"20%" align=3D"center">';
 echo '<img src=3D"./windimage.php?icao=3Dkrdm">';
 echo '</td>';
 echo "
    <td colspan=3D\"2\" width=3D\"80%\">$wind</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width=3D\"20%\" align=3D\"center\"> </td>
    <td colspan=3D\"2\" width=3D\"80%\">$humidity</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td width=3D\"20%\" align=3D\"center\"> </td>
    <td colspan=3D\"2\" width=3D\"80%\">$pressure</td>
</tr>
</table>
";


    }

One thing I forgot to mention is that I created duplicates of the =
"currentimage.php" file, editing them for the temp image, sky image, and =
wind image, and called them in my print_table function. That's the only =
way I could get the images to work right (I'm not a whiz PHP guy, I just =
tried it and it worked).

If you'd like, feel free to send that to the list. I don't have the =
list's e-mail address with me (I'm not on my usual computer). If you =
have a solution re: the night time icons, let me know!

-Jake
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Michael [mailto:psa...@ea...]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 6:05 PM
  To: web...@su...
  Subject: phpweather-CVS-latest


  I still dont quite understand this,=20
  How did you get your page to show that information?
  Is there code you can send me to help me?
  Thanks.
  Michael

Re: Help

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

"Michael" <din...@ea...> writes:

> I have installed phpweather-CVS-latest, read the docs, and for one i
> dont see a demo.php file,

Ups - the docs are outdated...

> i have however configured all my settings and setup my sql DB. Now
> if i want to show the latest METAR for lets say KLAX on a page i
> build, what is the code to call for that?

This should give you the report:

<?php
require('phpweather.php');
require('output/pw_text_en.php');
require('output/pw_images.php');

$weather = new phpweather(array('icao' => 'KLAX'));
$text    = new pw_text_en($weather);
$icons   = new pw_images($weather);

echo $text->print_pretty() . "<br />\n";
echo '<img src="'.$icons->get_sky_image().'" />';
echo '<img src="'.$icons->get_winddir_image().'" />';
echo '<img src="'.$icons->get_temp_image().'" />';

?>

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See http://gimpster.com/ and http://phpweather.net/ for:
PHP Weather => Shows the current weather on your webpage and
PHP Shell   => A telnet-connection (almost :-) in a PHP page.

Weather Class

[Yavor S. <ya...@ni...>]

Hello,

I needed the metar parsing functionality and while php weather has a lot of
features, i found it a bit overkill for the application I was writing. I
just needed the parsing functionality.

I ended up writing my own class and i "borrowed" the parsing part from php
weather. I want to submit the class to PEAR (pear.php.net) and i just need
to know if the author of php weather is OK with that . He'll get apropriate
credit and even can maintain the class if he feels so,

Yavor Shahpasov

Night Time Images

[Jake O. <ja...@or...>]

This is probably a fairly stupid question that hopefully has a simple fix.

I'm running a version of 2.0 on my site (I think it's a pre-2.0 final CVS
release, so if it's been fixed in the final release, let me know). It
provides the simple current weather for the area for our rental guests
(http://www.sunrayinc.com/sunriver/weather/) using a modified print_table
function. However, as you'll see right now, it's showing a nighttime
part-cloud graphic, even though it's only 4:30 here right now. I tried
setting the time offset before, and it didn't work (or maybe I didn't set it
right?). Any body have any ideas?

-jake

Help

[Michael <din...@ea...>]

I have installed phpweather-CVS-latest, read the docs, and for one i =
dont see a demo.php file, i have however configured all my settings and =
setup my sql DB. Now if i want to show the latest METAR for lets say =
KLAX on a page i build, what is the code to call for that?
Any help is appreciated
Michael

Re: Metar

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

Gyulai Miha'ly <gy...@fb...> writes:

> Fabio Parri =EDrta, 2002-07-29, 18:24-kor kelt level=E9ben, ami 74 sorb=
=F3l =E1llt:
>=20
>> Does any of you guys know this site ?
>>=20
>> http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp
>=20
> I checked the site, but didn't download the script.
>=20
> According their 'Features' list, it cannot do more than phpweather.
>=20
> Although the TAF decode is a plus, however TAF gives only a general
> description of the coming weather and wind speed, so I'm not sure
> TAF deserves the trouble to implement it...

But it's still something that a lot of people want to have on their
websites...
=20
> Description talks about 6000 ICAO stations (at one place), but at
> another place about 3200 stations... I don't know which one is
> correct...
>=20
> How many ICAO stations does phpweather know?

A lot :-) There's ~5100 stations in the stations.csv file but only
~4500 stations are active. The stations.csv file went from ~3000
stations to ~5100 stations after Tom Corser sent me his list of
stations. See the thread 'New weather site' at GeoCrawler:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2BE11371

We'll have to find the ~500 stations that doesn't belong to our list,
but the list itself should also be updated:

 http://makeashorterlink.com/?W4FE15371

--=20
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See http://gimpster.com/ and http://phpweather.net/ for:
PHP Weather =3D> Shows the current weather on your webpage and
PHP Shell   =3D> A telnet-connection (almost :-) in a PHP page.

[ phpweather-Feature Requests-586044 ] More precise date/time output

[<no...@so...>]

Feature Requests item #586044, was opened at 2002-07-24 19:22
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=377955&aid=586044&group_id=23245

Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: hort (hortensio)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: More precise date/time output

Initial Comment:
In LPFU at 10:30 UTC shows "-8238 minutes ago, at 10:30 UTC, 
the wind was blowing at a speed of 7.7 ".... the problem is of 
course the - sign that shows (variable $minutes_old).

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>Comment By: Martin Geisler (gimpster)
Date: 2002-08-06 12:24

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=104098

I agree that something should be done about negative dates -
the best thing would be, if we had a system that would
automatically use the right precission, so that a recent
report gets a string like '25 minutes ago, at XX:XX UTC' and
an older report gets '3 days ago, at XX:YY UTC on August the
3th'.

We could even make it so, that one can choose to have a
relative date (the 'x units ago') and an absolute date (the
'at XX:YY UTC on ...') or both. I think that would be rather
cool.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: hort (hortensio)
Date: 2002-07-24 20:28

Message:
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user_id=583650

Never mind! The LPFU file is from the year 2000

2000/11/30 10:30
LPFU 301030Z 21015G25KT 9999 SCT018 BKN250 21/15 Q1015 
RS2505KT
     052010KT 232218KT

sorry!

You could create a control then this happens like if older then 5 days 
then data to old to be used..... just a thought



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https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=377955&aid=586044&group_id=23245

Re: Metar

[Gyulai Miha'ly <gy...@fb...>]

Fabio Parri =EDrta, 2002-07-29, 18:24-kor kelt level=E9ben, ami 74 so=
rb=F3l =E1llt:

> Does any of you guys know this site ?
>=20
> http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp
>=20
> It's a perl commercial product very similiar to phpweather. I guess
> someone could check it and see wether it offers some interesting
> feature we could implement in phpweather as well :)
> I think it supports TAF

I checked the site, but didn't download the script.

According their 'Features' list, it cannot do more than phpweather.

Although the TAF decode is a plus, however TAF gives only a general
description of the coming weather and wind speed, so I'm not sure
TAF deserves the trouble to implement it...

Description talks about 6000 ICAO stations (at one place), but at
another place about 3200 stations... I don't know which one is
correct...

How many ICAO stations does phpweather know?

--=20
Mih=E1ly Gyulai  http://gyulai.freeyellow.com/

Metar

[Fabio P. <pa...@ut...>]

Hi guys,

This is my first post on this mailing list.
Does any of you guys know this site ?

http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp

It's a perl commercial product very similiar to phpweather. I guess =
someone could check it and see wether it offers some interesting feature =
we could implement in phpweather as well :)

I think it supports TAF

Ciao

Fabio