NEW Air Quality Script for Carterlake Template (RSS Version)

[mth]

Air Quality addon page for the WD-AJAX-PHP-USA template set are now available.

This script will provide your site with the current Air Quality Index, Pollutant Details, and the Two-Day AQI Forecast.  This script utilizes the RSS feeds provided by http://feeds.enviroflash.info/ (airnow.gov).  The script is also XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Also included is an additional script to provide your front page (ajax-dashboard) with the current AQI.

The page can be seen in action at http://www.relayweather.com/wxaqirss.php
The dashboard aqi can be seen in action at http://www.relayweather.com/
The files are available at http://www.relayweather.com/downloads.php

These scripts were written when the airnow.gov site made some dramatic changes to their code.  The old code is broken so this new script is needed.  Hopefully, the RSS version will stay consistent.  


Enjoy!  

Michael
http://www.relayweather.com



13-Jul-10 - UPDATE to Script:
Sorry for the update so soon....a few bugs were brought to my attention today.  (Thanks Chris! Smile)
--  The script has been updated to incorporate the ability for the script to handle missing data/days in both the Air Quality 2-Day Forecast and the Realtime Air Quality Data.  Missing data will now display "N/A".
-- The script now shows the "Action Alert Day" status.

16-Jul-10 - UPDATE to Script:
--  The script has been updated to fix a bug introduced when there is no second day forecast.  On some occasions, the Forecast Agency and Last Update time would mistakenly display N/A.

[Blackjack52]

Thank you very much.

[mth]

No problem Lee....I think this script will prove to be a little more robust. 

[Tim Hanko]

Running. Thanks.

[mth]

Running. Thanks.

Looks great Tim....

[Tim Hanko]

When I try to include the dashboard piece I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ')' in /homepages/24/d87962498/htdocs/get-aqi-rss.php5 on line 22

I renamed the file to php5 so it would get processed that way but that did not help.

[saratogaWX]

Thanks, Michael!  

I've installed the aqi page on my site.  Nice enhancement!!

Best regards,
Ken

[weatherbee]

Michael,
Thanks so much.  I have it running on it's own page and the dashboard page.

[mth]

When I try to include the dashboard piece I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ')' in /homepages/24/d87962498/htdocs/get-aqi-rss.php5 on line 22

I renamed the file to php5 so it would get processed that way but that did not help.

Tim,

My apologies but I'm not sure what coulding be causing that error.  Maybe someone on the forum more familiar with PHP5 issues can assist.  Have you always had problems with some of the scripts?

Michael

[BigOkie]

Tim,

My apologies but I'm not sure what coulding be causing that error.  Maybe someone on the forum more familiar with PHP5 issues can assist.  Have you always had problems with some of the scripts?

Michael

Look over this and tell me is this line 22?

Code: [Select]

'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,

[gateway2capecod]

When I try to include the dashboard piece I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ')' in /homepages/24/d87962498/htdocs/get-aqi-rss.php5 on line 22

I renamed the file to php5 so it would get processed that way but that did not help.

It seems like from your error being received...perhaps you are missing a ")"  symbol somewhere when you copied the code to your dashboard file.



...chris

[gateway2capecod]

hello..

I have the script running on my site, but no data appears for 2nd day forecast. I went to the page here:

http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state


...and noticed many cities/towns in the state are also not displaying any 2nd day forecast, so i then went to other State choice and same issue with many towns/cities.

any idea if this is an ongoing issue?..or do they release the forecast for day2 later in the day, since it is early morning now here?

if it is not regularly going to display the 2nd days data...perhaps we need to eliminate that part of it from our pages/files?

my actual aqi page is here:

http://www.gateway2capecod.com/wxaqirss.php


...chris

[mth]

hello..

I have the script running on my site, but no data appears for 2nd day forecast. I went to the page here:

http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state


...and noticed many cities/towns in the state are also not displaying any 2nd day forecast, so i then went to other State choice and same issue with many towns/cities.

any idea if this is an ongoing issue?..or do they release the forecast for day2 later in the day, since it is early morning now here?

if it is not regularly going to display the 2nd days data...perhaps we need to eliminate that part of it from our pages/files?

my actual aqi page is here:

http://www.gateway2capecod.com/wxaqirss.php


...chris

Hi Chris,

Yes, it appears that airnow has not released the 2nd Day forecast for half of the country.  Most of the time, all of the updates are done roughly around midnight.  At this time they will change the forecast to reflect the next two days.  I have seen this before and they usually have the problems resolved quickly.  Also, they are undergoing to changes to their structure too.  I'm thinking that I should add "N/A" if no forecast is found for day two?

Date: N/A
Type: N/A
Index: N/A
AQI Value:  N/A

Michael

[gateway2capecod]

Hi michael....

Probabbly not a bad idea to add the "N/A"...Just incase this happens in future. Maybe once they get the restruct completed, they will have 2 days forecast data on a regular basis.

I also think when you release a new update to the download file package, you should remove this line of code:

<img src="Relay_logo_85.png" align="right" border="0" width="55" height="55" alt="" />


..from the "wxaqirss.php" file, so that it doesnt look for your relay logo and confuse anyone new to setting this page up.


overall a nice new script and I will use this one from now on, in place of the old AQI Script I was using.

Good Job!....Chris

[FLWeather]

Thank you, Michael! Works great!