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

[cabnyorg]

What do I enter for the following, under "Create new table on database vbulletin"

Name : ????
Fields: ????

[2 X Viverridae]

Installed, and it works great! I haven't tried setting it to Spain, though...

The time is screwed up it seems, I've tried a few things to get it to consistently give users something a little more accurate in reference to their local time, but no joy yet.

Thanks for a great hack!

[tcs]

Installed. Awesome. Easy to modify the design to cutomize to my board.
Thanks
TCS

[Boofo]

JJR512, the guy who tried to set Spain as his default is right, there are no cities for Spain in there. Can we get some or at least take Spain out if there is none so we don't have users getting stuck like that?

[scottct1]

Anyones weather working today?

[Boofo]

Mine went down about an hour ago. They must be temporarily down.

[ExAvIoUr]

mines went down too. i thought i was the only 1.

[Kars10]

Mines went down too.... hope it will work again soon!!

[ExAvIoUr]

well it back up agian

[Erwin]

It's working for me at the moment.

[BrAinZ]

Just looking through the Weather_City data and I'm wondering whether I REALLY need to load all of this ?

I am based in the UK, and no-one is going to need any of the data for the rest of the world?

Would it help to keep things smaller and neater if I ONLY loaded the UK specific data?

Would it still work?

[Boofo]

You don't get any users from anywhere else in the world?

Originally posted by BrAinZ
Just looking through the Weather_City data and I'm wondering whether I REALLY need to load all of this ?

I am based in the UK, and no-one is going to need any of the data for the rest of the world?

Would it help to keep things smaller and neater if I ONLY loaded the UK specific data?

Would it still work?

[BrAinZ]

Originally posted by Boofo
You don't get any users from anywhere else in the world?

Nope.. Our board is only for staff of our Company, which is based in the UK. Well actually I might need to need Hong Kong in there, as we have a few staff there.

[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

[PsYc]

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.7:

Invalid SQL: SELECT accid,city_title FROM weather_city WHERE subdivid=
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

$cities = $DB_site->query("SELECT accid,city_title FROM weather_city WHERE subdivid=$current_subdiv[subdivid] ORDER BY city_title");

i think this query seems to complicate it..

i have created all tables and made the changes, i run it 4 times deleted it and made a fresh install... everytime i got this error, can anyone help?

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edit: ok fixed my errors, works great

/me clicks install