I've just noticed that whenever you change your settings it always works, but after that it just falls over again

This hack is pretty good

While it worked intermittently before, I'm suddenly getting the following error:

Warning: fsockopen(): php_hostconnect: connect failed in /home/u1/translucent/html/board/weather.php on line 32

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to www.msnbc.com:80 in /home/u1/translucent/html/board/weather.php on line 32

That usually happens to me but only once in a while

Could someone help me with the create_table part, please?

Thanks,
Patricia

hate to beat my own drum here but i guess i can, what the heck...

i think this is a lotta trouble to go thru. i wanted and needed weather for my motorcycle riding members so here's what i did:

1. changed the description of the 'location' user field to let them know that it was also used for their weather.

2. jacked yahoo's form for weather

3. threw a button on the top of my forum that yanks the member's 'location' field and passes it to the yahoo form.

bam you have member-specific weather. when they open the forum there's a button on the top called YOUR WEATHER with their location written in the form in the html already for them.

and yes, if some dumbass puts 'playboy mansion' or 'third ring of saturn' for their location, it will return the yahoo weather home page.

and yes, you could use the weather form from any site like www.noaa.com so long as they don't check the originating ip in their server-side script.

well as much as I like this hack I can't deal with the delay of the index.php file being loaded. I think I'm going to take Joey's idea with what he did with his weather. Since he and I have the same needs

this hack fails terribly most of the time

the weather.php page just hangs like crazy, rarely loads at all. the integrated version with the portal does the same thing...no error messages, it just sits at about half loaded and never works. i can go to the page page in the source manually, but i feel that the method that its being opened is the wrong way to go about it. i'll have to check into other ways of pulling the data because the current way just doesnt work enough of the time.

I'm gonna go with the last few posts and say that this hack is usless to me as index.php and weather.php just hang for about 5 min. and then time out.

oh well he tried