Release: Online Forecast Display

Download the PHP scripts to turn your plain text WX-SIM forecast into a colorful graphical forecast table:

http://www.wiscwx.com/jordan/wsofd/index.html

Donations will be accepted. Support requests can be posted here for the upcoming week (through 1/7/07).

Best wishes,

Jordan

You might consider including the instructions from the web page in the zip file for the scripts.

Hi

Im very happy for your script - but I have some problems getting it to work correctly - see this link:

http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/1/vejret/hjemmeside/vejrudsigt/vejrudsigt.php

I attach my plaintext.txt file

Here is the beginning of the wsofd.php:

<?php ##################################### ########## CONFIGURATION ########## ##################################### # Server location of plain text forecast $slplaintxt = "../../plaintext.txt"; # Server location of weather type file $slwxtypdat = "wxtypedata.txt"; # Web location of forecast images directory $imglnkloc = "http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/1/vejret/hjemmeside/vejrudsigt/images/"; # Extension of all image files in directory $imglnktyp = ".png"; # Desired height and width of forecast images $imgheight = 60; $imgwidth = 60; # Table background for images $imgbackg = "#ffffff"; --- [plaintext.txt|attachment](upload://oDv58oehgfq6wgf3IRaSj6c9x3X.txt) (4.06 KB)

Is this is the plaintext file URL http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/1/vejret/plaintext.txt?

Yes - that is correct

I am guessing that this will not work with PHP 4.3? This is what e-rice is using and is what many weather web sites are using as a host.

You could be right, the webpage does say “Requirements: A web server with PHP 5.0 or greater installed” #-o

Hi

My webhost do have PHP5 and if i use this link:

http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/1/vejret/hjemmeside/vejrudsigt/vejrudsigt.php

I get only the headlines of day 1 in the forecast. A lot is missing.

Silly me, I didn’t notice the 5.0 requirement either before I sent the PayPal. That’s OK because I’m having some trouble getting a good WxSim forecast due to WD logfile problems right now anyway.

Maybe we can get Jordan to “downgrade” it to 4.3, or else I guess I’ll just have to figure that out. Can’t golf this time of year anyway.

  • Jim

Running PHP 5.0.4 here and having the same problem. Glad I haven’t Paypalled yet…

Folks,

I will issue a fix very soon. Not sure the details of the problem. Thank you for your patience.

Jordan

For those of you having trouble:

There were slight adjustments made to the files in scripts.zip. Install that new package.

Obtain Jordan Gerth and see if that displays as it does on my web server, Jordan Gerth.

If they do not match, let me know what version of PHP you have, and I will look into that. I do not see why those of you with PHP4 should have any trouble; I do not believe I used any complex functions here.

I will not accept any PayPal donations until this issue is resolved.

Jordan

Jordan,

I keep getting “Warning: strpos(): Empty delimiter. in /virtual/users/e14335-14533/web/wsofd.php on line 138”. I believe it’s because the last element in $wxtype is nil. There may be something else, but that’s as far as I’ve been so far. I don’t think this is a PHP version issue. - Jim

Oops, I see you were busy while I was typing. Will install and check it out now.

Nope, you can see what I get at http://jcweather.us/example.php and if you need it you can grab my plaintext.txt at the same place.

Hi

Im sorry to tell you, that it still dont work - see this link: http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/1/vejret/hjemmeside/vejrudsigt/example.php

I attach my wsofd.php file as a txt file because this forum wont allow me to attach php files.


wsofd.txt (5.96 KB)

To complicate things further, a test on a PHP 4.3.8 was successful. I will first try to redo the foreach loop into a regular for loop. I believe this is causing some headaches.

Jordan

Forgot to tell, that the example link to your site is working ok at my computer (http://www.wiscwx.com/jordan/wsofd/example.php)

A new copy of wsofd.php is available in a new Jordan Gerth to remove the foreach loops and replace them with for loops, along with a few other minor changes. I appreciate the help since I am combatting this problem blindly. No changes to the other files.

Jordan

Its still the same…http://www.buskelundtoften.dk/1/vejret/hjemmeside/vejrudsigt/example.php

I’ll try to dig deeper. Give me some time.

Jordan

Hi Jordan

Its ok - i appreciate your work.

Take care

Jesper