Hi,
PhpWeather is really cool!
I started writing a PhpWeather plugin for PhpWiki, so it can call
PHPWeather. I have a suggestion which might make PhpWeather easier to
include in other web sites.
In order to arbitrarily embed the output from PhpWeather at a specific
location on the page, it would be helpful if the entire weather code could
be wrapped up in a single function, so the user would only have to worry
about 1 include. The function would also return the result as a string
rather than using print to try to do the output itself.
Such a function could be called something like this:
<?php
// my great php application
$icao = "CYYZ";
$language = 'en';
$format = 'metar';
$name = "Toronto Pearson Int\'l Airport / Ontario, Canada";
require_once('phpweather.inc');
$weather = PHPWeather($icao, $format, $language, $name);
// somewhere, deep in the web site...
printf("<table summary="Local weather via PHPWeather"><tr><td>%s</td></tr>
</table>", $weather);
?>
// inside 'phpweather.inc'...
<?php
// PHPWeather wrapper function
/**
* This is a convenience wrapper function for PHPWeather
*/
function PHPWeather($icao, $format = 'pretty', $language = 'en', $name = '
') {
include(sprintf('locale_%s.inc', $language));
switch ($format) {
case 'pretty':
return pretty_print_metar($icao, $format, $language, $name);
break;
case 'metar':
return get_metar($icao);
break;
}
//...etc
}
?>
The whole phpweather.inc probably could be rewritten using classes too,
but I haven't had time to delve inside the code yet, PhpWiki keeps me busy.
Carsten
CC: replies to <car...@ma...> (I'm not on the mailing-list).
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