As I am re-doing my web site, I want to add a page illustrating and directing potential and actual users to the various third-party scripts that have been developed (by some of you!). Here is some information Wim sent me:
"henkka (weatherc at the forums) from Nordic weather maintains two different WXSIM graphical 3in1 scripts using plaintext and lastret
More info and downloads at: https://www.nordicweather.net/phpscripts.php
Those scripts can be used “Stand-alone” such as a complete separate page in a website, or integrated in a template (Leuven and Saratoga) or, with a small effort, integrated in almost any existing website.
Yachym maintains WXSIM scripts to be used inside his successful MeteoTemplate. I think Jachym is using latest.csv also."
Can anybody add to (or correct, if necessary) any of that? Also, I’d like demos of these. In some cases, they are illustrated at the links. Henkka’s however, is showing a different source, not WXSIM, because of problems with the WXSIM forecasts (is that on-going, Henkka?) the the second says the forecast is too old. I know these scripts work, and WXSIM (the large majority of the time) works, so would like working examples to show. Please let me know of anything left out here.
I think that my script was likely the earliest one to use plaintext.txt to create icons/display like the NOAA/NWS printable-forecast.
Version 0.90 - 24-Mar-2007 - Pre-release - testing and commments version
Version 1.00 - 30-Mar-2007 - changed primary parsing to support IIS, and added minPoP to
display sky condition (with pop) instead of rain icon.
and now at
Version 1.30 - 30-Dec-2013 - fixed deprecated preg_replace /e with preg_replace_callback function
Not bad for a 10 year script life (and still going strong).
The first post in this discussion gives a false impression. For sure I did not forget the other authors, but Tom already knew about a few and wanted other names.
My answer immediately below Tom’s question, started with
These are the ones which should be added to the list also:
And "credit for who is credit due", I myself use a lot of the code from Ken, such as WXSIM the plaintext parser. As the credits at the bottom of all scripts show.
Hi Tom,
correct, I use both the plaintext.txt and the latest.csv
Examples (please note, these examples are from my DEMO site, since I dont have WxSIM myself these are just static files, which I got from other users, so they do not change, it is just for demonstration purposes):
Forecast block (user can choose sources, one of them being WxSim, they can also choose the default one, on my DEMO site WxSIM is not set to default (because it is not accurate, does not show current data), but you can still see this static demo if you select WxSIM. The link in the top right corner shows data from plaintext. I have recently also created a parser which uses the Meteotemplate language database to translate these)