vB Weather Mk. 2

This is a post of a much-revised hack originally posted (by myself) here. I am posting this as a new hack because MSNBC, who the raw weather data is provided through, has changed their source provider (from AccuWeather to The Weather Channel), which required a retooling of the data parsing code, as well as completely new databases. I have also made obsolete the weather_functions.php file, moving the functions to admin/functions.php, simplifying the ability to show current weather data on any page (if desired). Finally, in what I'm sure will be welcome news to many people who have installed the original, I've completely rewritten the instructions, making them, as far as I can tell, much simpler.

If you are unfamiliar with the original: This hack provides current weather conditions and a five-day forecast to your members. Each member can select from over 34,000 cities, by narrowing down from region (like continents), country, and subdivision (like states). Each member can also select to see temperatures in Fahrenheit or Celsius, as well as metric or standard measurements for the other data.

A demo is available on my test board: http://www.jjr512.com/testboard/. I have set up an account for anyone to use to test it out (username: test; pw: test). If you are not logged in, you will see default weather on the home page (default is set to New York City), and cannot change settings (I forget if you can view a detailed forecast, though; you may be able to). If you do log in, you can change the settings for the test account, to see how it works.

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If you have installed any previous version, you should completely uninstall it. Read the instructions and work backwards from there: Delete all templates added, remove changes to any existing templates (I forget if there were any or not), delete all new tables from the database, delete all new files added by the old hack. All have been changed to some extent, some more than others, and it would be easier to work from a clean slate. Especially since some of the template names have changes, so if you don't delete the old ones, they'll just be sitting there doing nothing at all. It is also vitally important to delete (or "drop") the tables--I believe there were six--you added for the original version. The new ones have different data and, for some, a different structure, so do not just empty them. Remove them totally.

Good luck!

Change Log
v1.1a: Current Version: Corrects a small error where an incorrect variable was used in the code to show the local time of the last update. If you already have v1.1, you only need to do the fix described in Post #82 below.
v1.1: Changes display of last update time to be the correct time in the user's own local time zone; previously, it was always Eastern Time (GMT-5) (Upgrade instructions are in Post #79 below). Also breaks the weather_city.sql into six smaller pieces (useful only to new installations; existing installations need not worry about this).
v1.0a: Adds instructions on how to add location to current weather on forums home page (changes to code added to index.php and forumhome_weather template).
v1.0: Original Release

[350Chevy]

Originally posted by lemarsu
Hi,

Most of the time under the Temperature box there is no temperature, showing. (as you can see in the pic)

but under Detailed Forecast all comes up !
is it possible to fix that ?

LeMarsu

Same question... still unanswered..

[Julio]

Strange: I always get all the info displayed.

[350Chevy]

I think it has something to do with the server settings. Maybe my server doesn't have something running that it needs to pull the temperatures... ?? Dunno.. everything works but the Temp.. but I don't even get the temperature on the forecast page. Weird..

[350Chevy]

Nobody else has had this problem?

[bahamut0]

hello i was uninstalling this and suddenly got this error.

nvm i fixed it

i took out the code from the index and admin functions files then went to my mysql and deleted the weather tables and got this after, did i forget something somewhere.

[nymyth]

sup people...this is buggin the hell outta me.......everytime i try to run the sql files......my browser "page cannot be displayed" shows that page........im tired.....any ideas from anyone....thanx

Peace

[Erwin]

The files are too big - you need to break them up into smaller sql files.

[350Chevy]

Has anyone figured out why the temperature doesn't display on some web servers but everything else about this mod works fine?

[EvilLS1]

Yeah, the temperature doesn't show up on my site either. So I disabled it for now, since the temperature is one of the most important details. Bummer.. I really wanted to use this hack.

[Julio]

One thing I noticed on my testboard is that if the "Country" you choose to display data is rarely shown on their site, or tv channel, it ussually has no info at all.

-lucky me-