YoWindow Weather Widget
 

What is it?
A simple template modification to bring the YoWindow Weather Widget to vB4

1. Firstly, you need to set up a new Profile Field. Choose Single-Line Text Box

Title: Weather Location Code
Description: (Whatever you want - here's what I use because the process might confuse some users)
Required Field: No, but display at registration
Field Editable by User: Yes
Private Field: Yes
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No
Display Page: Edit Profile

Take note of the newly created profile field number.

2. Next you need to create a new template. Go to AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Add New Template

Title: block_weather

Replace the XX (2 times) with the number of the profile field you created earlier.

3. Go to AdminCP > Forums & Moderators > Forum Blocks Manager > Add Block

Title: Weather Forecast
Content Type: HTML
Content: <div></div>
Template To Use: block_weather

Now, this part may prove tricky for some going by what I've seen in other weather widget modifications so I'll try and make it simple and add a few pictures, this process is also required to be done by your members to display their local forecast.

Go to http://yowindow.com/weatherwidget.php and fill in your details and generate the code. The only part of the code you need is the number after id=gn: and before &amp;. Take note of that number and go to Edit Profile on your site, scroll down to the newly made Weather Code Location and blurb box and enter the number. Save your profile. Go back to your forum home and the new block should display with your weather details for the next 5 days. Click on the scenery image and it will expand to full-screen and give a more detailed outlook.

How To Add Location Scenery (village, seaside, airport or oriental) To Your Weather Widget - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=24

How To Add Weather Widget To Member Profiles - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=18

Added: 28.12.2012 An alternative version that uses IP location to display the weather rather than creating and entering data into a profile field can be found here - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=36. It also allows the user to display weather forecasts from many other locations via dropdown menus.

If anyone wants to further develop any of my addons, you are free to do so.

To make a CMS widget

1. Go to AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Add New Template

Title: vbcms_widget_weather

Again replacing the XX with the number of your profile field. Save the template.

2. Go to AdminCP > vBulletin CMS > Widgets > Create New Widget

Type: Static HTML
Title: Weather Forecast

Save

3. Configure the newly created widget

Enter Static HTML: <div></div>
Template Name: vbcms_widget_weather

Save

4. Go to AdminCP > vBulletin CMS > Layout Manager and place the weather widget where you want it to appear on your CMS grid.

That is so cool! Thank you very much!

It is quite configurable too if you want to change the size, units, time, scenery image etc - just match up your new settings (embedded code) to the code I've given and remember to re-add the <vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[fieldXX] !=''"> and {vb:raw bbuserinfo.fieldXX} bits. :)

Look great Gemma!!

Just to confirm what happens if there is no weather set in your profile field? what does it default to?

If you haven't entered anything in the profile field or are a guest you will see whatever you edit this part of the template to say/display

Or to make it not display at all replace the block_weather template with this

Ah thanks, just trying it out now...

Looks great, shame the list is not very comprehensive for Spain, no Balearic islands and so on, hopefully they will add some :)

I've made a small edit to the block_weather code. I didn't realise I had left a part of my own location in the code and I've also set the miniLocation_bar to false.

To update just replace the block_template code

Hey Gemma,

Do you know how difficult it would be to add this to a 'weather' tab on a usersprofile instead of a sidebar block? Only thinking as then you don't have an empty block for those who do not want to use it or slowing down loading speeds every time the page is loaded?

I'll have a look and get back to you about the tab :)

But if you don't want it to show to those who don't enter anything in the profile field replace the block_template code with the code in this post

THIS CODE HAS BEEN UPDATED IN THIS POST - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=18

There is probably a lot simpler way to do this - I've never created a profile block before.

1. Create your profile field as normal.

2. Then create a new template called weather_aboutme

Remember to change the 2 instances of XX to correspond with the profile field you just created. Save the template.

3. In your AdminCP, go to Plugins & Products > Add New Plugin

Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: member_build_blocks_start
Title: Show Weather In Profile
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:
Plugin is Active: Yes

That is brilliant! Thank you so much!!!

Is there one of these that will work on vbulletin forum 4.0? Please would love one

Yes it works on vB4 :confused:

This might be asking for too much, but . . doesn't hurt to try.

I like the idea of adding this widget as a box in the member profile. I went through this post and followed the instructions and it works . . . but . . . I notice that no matter which user profile I am viewing on the forums, it still loads my personalized YoWindow on the page. Is there anyway to make this only display on your personal profile page? and better yet, allow you to view the forecast for other users if you browse their profile?

Ok, try this.

In your MEMBERINFO template find:
Above that put this
Change both instances of fieldXX to correspond with the profile field you created.

No need for the plugin to be added from post#12, this will now show the weather for each member who has entered the profile data, if they haven't entered any data no block will appear....and when anyone else views the member's profile it will show the weather of the person whose profile you are viewing (if data entered). Also I've had to delete the <vb:else /> part of the code - if I get time later I'll look into that.

That is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you Gemma ;)

Working great! Thanks!

Thank you :)

I've updated part of the code, it should still work with the old code but if you want to upgrade find:

Change it to:

Is there a way to add the different scenes to this? On the "block" all I can get is the country side looking one, but on profiles I got the airport one by playing with the code alittle....how would one make the airport or the other scenes work on block?

Or is this even possible?

Thanks in advance.

There are two ways you could do this. One would be to find amp;us=metric&amp; in the code and after that add landscape=AAAAAAA&amp; where AAAAAAA would be either village, seaside, airport or oriental. This would however set all the location scenery to whatever option you choose.

Or you could do it this way.

Create a new user profile field.

Profile Field Type: Single-Selection Radio ButtonTitle: Weather Location Scene
Description: Choose from Village, Seaside, Airport and Oriental imagery for the background of your weather forecast report.
Options:
village
seaside
airport
oriental
Set Default: Yes
Field Required: No
Field Editable By User: Yes
Private Field: Yes
Field Searchable on Members List: No
Show on Members List: No

Take note of the profile field number.
Save
Note: the scenery options must be in lowercase letters (village, seaside, airport or oriental).

In your template find
Right after that put (where YY is the profile field number)
So it looks like
Save the template.

Wow, just wow. Thank you very much. I used the first option you gave, as I then can switch it up for the members when I want them to see something different.

Thank you for taking the time Gemma! Very much appreciated.

You are more than welcome :)

Thanks, Gemma. Installed this one on my test board and it look super cool!!

@Gemma, Your widget language stays in English, but the original yowindow widget can change the language.

I changed the line
and included the lang=nl&amp; option. Now it looks like this and the day's of the week are displayed in Dutch.

I didn't pick up on that, good spot :)

I have this mod now running on my board in the CMS as a widget, but changed the code a tiny bit so that it auto-scales. Now the code looks like this (my changes are marked in RED)

I also changed the location of the <vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[field9] !=''"> a bit so that when a user or a guest user have no ID it defaults to a city in the middle of The Netherlands.

Think my weather widget is broken. All it has done is show rain since the beginning of June :(

I inserted the code in the block, created the custom field and the number assigned in the field code. On vbulletin 4.2 shows always newyork is normal?

Did you enter your weather code that correspondes to your area from the YoWindow website into your profile?

Very nice, installed, along with a moon phase widget below.

The template code has been updated slightly, to update find:
Replace it with:

Here is an alternative method of displaying the widget. In this one it should display your weather according to your IP and also give you the option to view other locations.

To use this method, create a new template called block_weather and copy the following code:
Now add a new forum block. AdminCP > Forums & Moderators > Forum Blocks Manager > Add Block > Custom HTML/PHP

Title: Weather Forecast
Description: Whatever
Cache Time: You Decide
Display Order: Up to you
Content Type: HTML
Content: <div></div>
Template To Use: block_weather

Save. Purge cache.

You should be able to add this to your CMS or MEMBERINFO (profile) template by substituting the block_weather code into the relevant template.

Excellent work on this mod am wondering why it keeps defaulting to Temperature: °C??
Is there something I need to edit for it to either ask or default it to Temperature: °F?

I am using the IP auto version which I think is really neat!

Dear Gemma,
Thank you for your method, it is working , but with some problems for me:

How to create a new template called block_weather?

in pic 1:
what is this box (with ? in my pic)
how to change from F to Celsius degrees? although I have this in the code : unit_system: "metric"

in pic 2:
I have these blocks, but when i activate the weather block, it pushes these blocks to the bottom of the forum screen and with full size of the screen as in pic 3!!

I thought by being set to auto it would change automatically depending on IP. Obviously not :(

Find:
Change it to:

Find:
Change it to:
For the second problem, can you post me the contents of your block_html template so I can look at the code