Weather Web Cam Images History PHP Script and Template Plugin

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[MCHALLIS]

John,

That error means the cache output file ($outputimgName) is not being saved.

 To be able to help, I need the url to your script and the settings you set in it.

[jahuff]

Hi

http://www.johnsnhweather.com/image-webcam-overlay.php

$ImageURL = 'http://www.johnsnhweaher.com/webcamimage-plain.jpg';
$localimgName = 'webcamimage-temp.jpg';
$outputimgName = 'webcamimage.jpg';

include './testtags.php';
$timezone = date('T');
$temperature = preg_replace('/°F/', ' °F', $temperature);

$text1 = "$time $timezone $date
$temperature, Rain:$dayrn, Wind:$avgspd, Max Gust:$maxgst
$current_summary
Pittsburg, NH
www.johnsnhweather.com";

$archivedir = './';

Is this what you need??

Thanks,

John

[MCHALLIS]

Yes that is what I needed

Your image is missing, are you uploading a web cam image to you site?
http://www.johnsnhweaher.com/webcamimage-plain.jpg

[jahuff]

Yes --
http://www.johnsnhweather.com/webcamimage-plain.jpg

[MCHALLIS]

Your domain name was misspelled (missing the t in weather)

$ImageURL = 'http://www.johnsnhweather.com/webcamimage-plain.jpg';

[jahuff]

Hi MCHALLIS,

I fixed the 't'  ,

But I still get the "Error: 009".

John

[MCHALLIS]

John,

Try deleting this file
http://www.johnsnhweather.com/webcamimage.jpg
then run the script again

[jahuff]

Hi,

If I remove it this is what I get.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in /home/johnsnh/public_html/image-webcam-overlay.php on line 138

John

[MCHALLIS]

Line 138 should look like this
$ImageURL = 'http://www.johnsnhweaher.com/webcamimage-plain.jpg';

You have a typo in there breaking the php

If you cannot find it paste it with a few lines above and below so I can see

[MCHALLIS]

John,

It looks like you are uploading a webcamimage.jpg from WD?
You need to turn that off so image-webcam-overlay.php can generate it, then delete the webcamimage.jpg

or you can change $outputimgName to something else like this

$outputimgName = 'webcamimage-cached.jpg';

The fact that a webcamimage.jpg is there that this script did not generate is confusing it because webcamimage-temp.jpg is then missing.

[jahuff]

Hi,

I am making some progress. I went back to your original php and now I am trying to get things sorted out. So far  http://www.johnsnhweather.com/image-webcam-overlay.php I have your jpg with some of my data. I should have it working soon. 

I will let you know.

Thanks,

John

[jahuff]

Thanks so much MCHALLIS, I got it working. I just need to some resizing and I should be on my way.

 http://www.johnsnhweather.com/image-webcam-overlay.php

Thanks again,

John

[jahuff]

Hi,

Well I have just about everything working, EXCEPT, I can't get the job to run every 5 minutes. I am using "System Scheduler" (Method 3) to execute a batch job on my system has "ping http://www.johnsnhweather.com/image-webcam-overlay.php" in it. Is that correct?

Thanks,

John

[MCHALLIS]

Hi,

Well I have just about everything working, EXCEPT, I can't get the job to run every 5 minutes. I am using "System Scheduler" (Method 3) to execute a batch job on my system has "ping http://www.johnsnhweather.com/image-webcam-overlay.php" in it. Is that correct?

Thanks,

John

John,

I have never really used system scheduler. It was recommended in a forum post once before, but I think you are the first to try it with my image handler.
I think I was too literal when I said "ping" the web address, what you need instead is to automatically run an http request to the page.

I just looked at the splinterware forum and found this:
http://www.splinterware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=341&highlight=web+site

You need to create a 'Run Application' job. In the 'Application' field enter the http address you want to go to.
So if you create a new job and enter http://www.splinterware.com in the 'Application' field, when you run the job Internet Explorer will open the Splinterware home page.

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more of my thoughts, looks like it would constantly open a browser window, you would have to schedule something else to close it, that would annoy me to no end. Maybe system scheduler is not an option at all then?

This method might work better.... (skip the 'Track.aspx webpage' parts)
Schedule a task to call a webpage using Task scheduler
http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2006/09/28/Schedule-a-task-to-call-a-webpage-using-Task-scheduler_2E00_.aspx

or since you have WD ( I have tested this it works silently )
Method 1: If you already have weather-display software click on Control Panel | FTP & Connections | HTTP Download tab Click on #1,#2 or #3 setup button | switch on the button for "downloads on | enter your image-webcam-overlay.php url in the box called "URL of file to be downloaded" | click "add to list" | check the tick that says "Tick if text file" | enter image-webcam-overlay.txt in the box that says "Local filename to be downloaded" | click "add to list" | click "download every 5 minutes" | click "save now" | click OK

[jahuff]

Hi,

I have just setup "Method 1", I thought I tried this before, let me see if it works.

In the URL field I entered "http://www.johnsnhweather.com/public_html/image-webcam-overlay.php"

Should I get rid of /public_html ???

Thanks,

John