Will it work with weather in Scandinavia too?

Hmm.

I got a wierd problem.

most of the time it take realy long time for my index page to load.
And when it does the weather is all messed up.
No pic and the temperature is way off.
I have to reload to make it work.
Sometimes it takes around a minute to load.
And i have to reload several times to make the weather work.

Its a grate hack but the load times are annoying.

/DonLKSAB

I'm having the exact same problem as the Don, terribly slow loading, if it loads at all... I've turned it off until I can figure out the malfunction :(.

I have the same problem..at first I didn't know what it was...then narrowed it down to the weather hack server speed.

Had to take it out of index.php too because merely taking it our of the forumhome template wasn't good enough...shame too was a good hack for a while but not woth the headache with the slow load speeds

Question:

The code that is put into the index doesn't update the weather settings. You grab the weather from the server, display it, then it just goes away. It's not cached into the database. Why?

Wouldn't it be more efficient if it grabs the weather, displays it, inserts/updates the weatherdata then exits?

I've seen teh same performance issues recently as well. COuldn't figure it out, as the pages would oad fine some of the time, then for no apparent reason, it'd take 50+ seconds of PHP processing for the page to load. Finally noticed that the pages that loaded slowly all showed no info for the weather.

Disabled the weather features and now the site sings again...

Sad to see it go, but for a performance hit like that, I cannot justify the hack :(

I did like it, though... as do many of my site's members.

just a note to you guys. I had a weather system installed on my board just liek this one..not sure if this is it. its a great informational tool, but DO NOT install it on the main forum home page....it stalls the loading of the forum..I lost half my visitors because of it....it took forever to load the main forum page because of that hack....make a link on the main forum page for it..but if its displayed live on the main forum page good luck trying to load your forum..its ridiculous...its sucks because I love the idea of this hack..

I've been having excessively long load times to get to the main page of my forum, and it hadn't occurred to me to disable the weather hack and check. Through my installation of another hack today, I inadvertantly killed the weather display from my forum index. The page FLIES again. I won't be re-enabling the weather on my forum index any more. I'll just find somewhere to integrate it into my site, either via a link or button to "Your Weather" (http://yourdomain.com/yourforum/weather.php).

Oh bugger! So that's why my vbhome portal was loading so slowly. Never occured it could be the weather.

Why is it suddenly doing this now? Never used to be a problem. Is there nothing can be done to pep it up again. I love this hack! *cry*

I've always had that problem with the hack, actually. Ever since I installed it, which was months ago... so what I did, was make it optional, where you could turn it on or off in the User CP. That way users stopped complaining about the slow loading time...