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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

Schorsch · #**122** 08-08-2002, 05:01 PM

how can I change fahrenheit in celsius ?

ExAvIoUr · #**123** 08-08-2002, 05:03 PM

click on change setting in the weather pert of the forum. then change it there.

its thats easy

Schorsch · #**124** 08-08-2002, 05:18 PM

how do the weather symbols look on a dark background ?

because I think they look quite frayed. I can't say it exactly because I didn't install the hack yet.

would be nice if somebody could give a short information.

regards,
Schorsch

Schorsch · #**125** 08-09-2002, 02:15 AM

hmmm see:

looks not so good on dark backgrounds

can somebody make some sybmols that fit on dark backgrounds ?

cu
Schorsch

joeboo · #**126** 08-09-2002, 02:15 AM

great job on the weather hack, i installed it with no problems

DarkDraco07 · #**127** 08-09-2002, 02:50 AM

whats so bad about that symbol? it looks fine

Schorsch · #**128** 08-09-2002, 03:00 AM

u can see this ugly white border on dark backgrounds!! looks not so groovy in my mind :beard:

joeboo · #**129** 08-09-2002, 04:37 AM

bah, i use it on a dark background and it aint that bad. it looks fine, and i aint complainin. just modify yourself, u can easily do it with even paint

hypedave · #**130** 08-09-2002, 05:29 AM

I get this following error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: convert_temp() in /home/ochroma/public_html/forums/index.php on line 581

JJR512 · #**131** 08-09-2002, 09:18 PM

Did you insert the functions into functions.php, as described in Step 5 of the instructions? Did you save functions.php after modifying it? Did you upload it to your forums/admin directory after saving it after modifying it?

Boofo · #**132** 08-09-2002, 09:22 PM

JJR512,

Do you have any idea why the "Time Last updated" is still showing the server time and not the local user's time? The serevr is set to GMT and my time is -6 and it is always 6 hours behind.

hypedave · #**133** 08-09-2002, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JJR512
Did you insert the functions into functions.php, as described in Step 5 of the instructions? Did you save functions.php after modifying it? Did you upload it to your forums/admin directory after saving it after modifying it?

yes I did, right now im using the old index.php until I can fix that error.

Boofo · #**134** 08-10-2002, 04:30 AM

Would you mind sharing your template for that? It looks fantastic!

Quote:

Originally posted by snyx
lookin tight man! love this hack..

PhoenixBB · #**135** 08-13-2002, 09:28 PM

Hit a bit of a problem......

One of my members has just told me she can't set the weather for her area - South Carolina. There are no cities listed for that (though there are for North Carolina). Have I got missing files somewhere??

I never got any errors when inputting the data into the database so is everybody missing data for South Carolina?

Matt87 · #**136** 08-13-2002, 09:41 PM

Are you sure this is alright doing this with the weather channel, doesn't this use up their bandwith?

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