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vB Weather Mk. 2 · **Released**: 08-02-2002

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

auz1111 · #**292** 03-23-2003, 12:53 AM

mine is down also... I really liked this one. has to be a way around this..

DarkDraco07 · #**293** 03-23-2003, 01:55 AM

interesting, im not the only one. it seems msn has changed their database

lynda · #**294** 03-23-2003, 04:32 AM

Information can still be reached using the same url construct...

http://www.msnbc.com/m/chnk/d/weathe...?acid=USGA0184

I have no clue what changed though.

scottct1 · #**295** 03-23-2003, 04:38 PM

Weird its still working for my city and other cities around me. I don't know what to say of why its not working for everyone.

lemarsu · #**296** 03-23-2003, 05:43 PM

Scott ... what is your city ?

gopherhockey · #**297** 03-23-2003, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Today at 06:38 PM scottct1 said this in Post #294
Weird its still working for my city and other cities around me. I don't know what to say of why its not working for everyone.

I don't buy it, I think it is completely broken. I tried dozens of various cities and none work. Unless someone can say specifically a city that works, I think we (someone?) need to look at figuring this out.

I think this hack is worth keeping alive. I wish I knew more about this type of thing to help.

scottct1 · #**298** 03-23-2003, 09:57 PM

Still working fine for me, my town is Newington, Connecticut. As a test I randomly selected other cities and all worked fine.

Below is a screen shot I just took of the weather working on my board.

gopherhockey · #**299** 03-23-2003, 10:00 PM

Hmmm.. maybe we're on to something? I tried your city and it doesn't work for me.

Perhaps you could post your weather.php file to see if there is something different about it?

Or perhaps some of us are being blocked by IP address and others aren't?

Can you set it to Minneapolis, Minnesota and get the weather?

If yours works no matter what, perhaps we can use that to figure out whats broken for others...

scottct1 · #**300** 03-23-2003, 10:01 PM

Ok now while it IS working fine on my front page, the full forecast is NOT working no matter which city I select.

(It looks like as shown in the attachment below)

gopherhockey · #**301** 03-23-2003, 10:05 PM

Looks like you have played with the look & feel of the script quite a bit from original. I don't even have the images you have showing up (weather is offline, try again later) - I just get the red X for image not available.

For example, the script is trying to use this as the graphic link on my site:

Code:

http://www.mtbmn.com/forums/images//weather//.gif

It is obviously not pulling info back from the weather site in order to properly format things.

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