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Posted by: dpfreshOn 2006/9/27 10:30:38 14648 reads

A simple weather module with a weather block, module page and options to choose from multiple cities and Fahrenheit or Celsius. This module is English only at this point in time.

Features:

- XOOPS group permissions integration
- Weather Block
- Choose between Fahrenheit or Celsius
- Give users choice of several cities to view
- Several config settings in preferences

Download from Xoops Dev site or this site when it is available in the module repository. Support is at the Simple Weather Module Dev. Developers Web Site: http://www.picharddesign.com

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Re: Simple Weather Module Released

carnuke Published 09/27/2006 10:38 Home away from home Joined 11/05/2003 Comments 1955

As always, it would be nice to see a demonstration of this module.

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prvmao Published 09/27/2006 11:56 Just popping in Joined 02/16/2006 Comments 34

when i try to change city, i am redirected to the index page of site. Someone know how to correct ?

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mesol Published 09/27/2006 14:05 Not too shy to talk Joined 04/19/2006 Comments 168

Which city's weather are available? I in Malaysia. is it avaibale for my country?

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PepeMty Published 09/27/2006 20:20 Just popping in Joined 11/14/2005 Comments 59

I'm in México so I'd like to see my city, Monterrey, included.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Quest Published 09/28/2006 2:41 Friend of XOOPS Joined 11/19/2005 Comments 1034

Nice! Thanks dpfresh. I am using XOOPS 2.0.15 and it works excellent.

@ Mesol and PepeMty:

Just get the code from yahoo and it will work.

Here is the one Monterey, Mexico
MXNL0068

Not sure where in Malaysia you are Mesol. Here is Kuala Lumpur:
MYXX0008

Quest

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

PepeMty Published 09/28/2006 11:19 Just popping in Joined 11/14/2005 Comments 59

Gee! Thanks a lot!
Warm greetings to all.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

spipes Published 09/28/2006 15:48 Just popping in Joined 03/23/2005 Comments 3

Great Module.
Once I worked out how to get the codes for none US locations it is very easy to use.

Examples:
Monterey Mexico is MXNL0068 which is derived from the yahoo url = http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/MXNL0068.html

Perth, Australia is ASXX0089
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/ASXX0089.html.

To find your location browse the weather.yahoo site and get the code from the url...

Good luck and thanks to the developers for an excellent module.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 09/28/2006 16:05 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Tested under XOOPS 2.2.4 works great

Demo Site

dpfresh Published 09/28/2006 21:48 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Here is a demo of the weather module..
http://www.picharddesign.com/modules/weather/

Weather block doesn't look great on my site due to the CSS but you can turn the background color and border on or off via the mod preferences....

- DPFresh

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 09/28/2006 21:49 Updated 09/28/2006 21:50 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Thanks for all the feedback...

- DPFresh

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

spacejoee Published 09/28/2006 22:47 Not too shy to talk Joined 07/25/2004 Comments 106

Hi ,
That's a very nice module !
But is it possible to translate it ? the actual language file only support some few changes, it will be much better if we can also translate the days, (today, tomorow, sun, mon, ...)
and thoses ones :
Feels Like:
Barometer:
Humidity:
Visibility:
Dewpoint:
Wind:
Sunrise:
Sunset:

Etc ...

Re: Demo Site

Quest Published 09/28/2006 23:12 Friend of XOOPS Joined 11/19/2005 Comments 1034

Your demo site no worky. Redirects for Login.

Quest

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 09/28/2006 23:21 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Ahh yes... permissions in 2.0 series... should be able to view demo now...

As far as language... this mod is merely doing content fetching and parsing... there isn't really an option to change the language without paramount amounts of work.... which I am unable to do at this point in time..

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

tzvook Published 09/29/2006 7:08 Updated 09/29/2006 7:10 Just can't stay away Joined 02/01/2003 Comments 875

It's a great start for a badly-needed module !!!

A quick and "dirty" hack for replacing lang @ the block level is to edit /modules/weather/templates/blocks/weather_block.php and add this after line 32 ( right after substr(eregi_replace('

',"",$lines[31]), -5); )

 // Tzvook dirty hack 2 replace Lang vars // 
$block['current'] =  
substr(eregi_replace('fair',"","YOUR-LANG-staff"), -5); 
$block['current'] =  
substr(eregi_replace('Mostly Sunny',"","YOUR-LANG-staff"), -5);

YOUR-LANG-staff should be replaced with your lang replacements... I'm still looking for the full list of Yahoo's vars to replace ... but don't have the time for it ... so who need the block badly can folow this and make his own hack or even start helping with turning the module into multilang .... with dpfresh permition of cours

I mostely needed the weather block, so I use this dirty hack in a rush ..... but ....

The main page translation is more difficult ... I still couldn't do a hack ... maybe dpfresh will light my(our) eyes ...

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

tzvook Published 09/29/2006 7:27 Updated 09/30/2006 6:34 Just can't stay away Joined 02/01/2003 Comments 875

DELETED !!! HACK NOT WORKING

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Twiztid Published 09/29/2006 9:26 Just popping in Joined 07/21/2006 Comments 49

Looks great.

In my block though, currently the weather is "FAIR" but in my block is says "Fai"

Is there a reason why it's truncating the results?

Any idea how to fix this?

THANKS.. LOVE the 5 day forecast!!!!

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

zeroram Published 09/29/2006 17:26 Updated 09/29/2006 17:28 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/30/2004 Comments 326

tested on XOOPS 2.013 and found a bug , dont know if only to this version or will apply to someone else with different versions of xoops.

After you click MAKE DEFAULT to any city.. the other modules left icons will dissapear... poof!!

after that, if you click on your Control panel link ( http://www.yourdomain.com/admin.php ) it will ask you another buggy thing

"This is your first time to enter the administration section. Press the button below to proceed."

after you hit SUBMIT you get everything back, but still weird to me.. never see that with any other module.

beside that... everything is perfect, simple module but do directly what we needs.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Quest Published 09/29/2006 20:40 Friend of XOOPS Joined 11/19/2005 Comments 1034

I have notice the same thing about the "First Time entering the Admin" I am running 2.0.15. Untill now I thought I was just going bonkers, again.

I am not sure about the icons, I haven't paid close enough attention. But definately strange to get that "First Time Entering Admin" message.

Quest

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 09/29/2006 20:49 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

ironicaly isn't it?...first module that works perfect under a non recomended XOOPS version...the 2.2.x series

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Peekay Published 09/29/2006 23:44 XOOPS is my life! Joined 11/20/2004 Comments 2335

@dpfresh

This looks like a really cool module, but can you specify which XOOPS version you have developed it on/for?. If you have 2.2+ this is unlikely to work properly on 2.0.* and you'll just get loads of complaints.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 10/01/2006 5:36 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Hi all.. so I used a 2.4 install to develop this module and it has worked fine on that.... I recently upgraded to 2.0.15 at picharddesign.com and had a similar weird thing going on with the "First Time entering the Admin" message... I will try to dig around some time and see what is going on there...

So at this point I would call it a 2.4 module....

The set up: The block fetches and parses an RSS feed where as the module itself fetches data from yahoo weather... thus you may have slightly different temps for the block and the module - also depending on how you set your cache time for each....

The easiest way to make this happen was to return the results of the data fetch as an array and loop through it to find specific tags... so... Hopefully yahoo won't change their format for a long time... else chaos and mayhem may ensue...

I'm not opposed to opening this project up to the XOOPS community if someone wants to take the ball and run with it.... I just don't have time to do language packs and what not... many more mods to build..... Although I think language files will be particularly cumbersome with this type of fetching set up....

- DPFresh

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 10/01/2006 9:26 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Sugestion...the block will be more useful if it'll include and the name of the city displayed...but one can always edit the template file to include that

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 10/01/2006 10:41 Updated 10/01/2006 10:42 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

The block does say the name of the city - by default it is "Sitka Weather" when you first install it... per the install instructions, change it to whatever your default city is....

FOR EXAMPLE:
http://www.picharddesign.com/modules/weather/

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 10/01/2006 10:49 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

oh ok

I ment the name of the block itself + the name of the default city under it , but it's logical and the way it is (one doesn't needs an expert to tell you that's a weather block)

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

WarDick Published 10/02/2006 2:45 Just can't stay away Joined 09/13/2003 Comments 890

Quote:

"First Time entering the Admin" message...

This modules has to be deleting the adminmenu.php file from the cache directory to cause this symptom.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 10/02/2006 5:15 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

That makes sense... I set it up so it would blast everything in the cache directory whenever the end user selects a new city or the admin chooses a new default city.... Obviously, it only needs to get rid of the cache files for the weather mod but I couldn't find a better way to do that at this point...

The reason for this was so you wouldn't see old data after changing the city due to the XOOPS cache.... This wasn't a problem in 2.4

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

zeroram Published 10/13/2006 22:33 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/30/2004 Comments 326

Does anyone know how to remove that link "Get Yahoo! Weather on your desktop "

beside that the module is perfect!!!

Version 1.2 Released

dpfresh Published 10/15/2006 4:48 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Version 1.2 has been released and fixes the bug that causes the admin menu to diappear in XOOPS 2.0.x.... Download the new file here:

http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1350&release_id=1184&dl=2761

- DPFresh.

Re: Version 1.2 Released

Twiztid Published 10/24/2006 9:35 Just popping in Joined 07/21/2006 Comments 49

Love the module..

For some reason in my BLOCK, I get the following:

When it's cloudy, mine says "Cloud"

When it's fair, mine says "Fai"

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Jamie

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 10/26/2006 19:20 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Are you using Celsius or Fahrenheit? it shouldn't matter either way but I'm curious..

Re: Version 1.2 Released

WarDick Published 10/26/2006 20:35 Just can't stay away Joined 09/13/2003 Comments 890

I just downloaded the new version and my cache is still getting erased?

I am using XOOPS 2.0.15.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 10/27/2006 22:47 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

is it causing any major problems in erasing the cache?

Re: Version 1.2 Released

DarinAllan Published 10/28/2006 1:58 Friend of XOOPS Joined 05/18/2005 Comments 477

Quote:

When it's cloudy, mine says "Cloud"

When it's fair, mine says "Fai"

When I had it installed I had the same problem, I was using Celcius ;o)

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 10/31/2006 23:28 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Yesa.. I need to rework the block a little.. will post a new link when I get a chance to do so...

Thanks for the bug catches...

- David

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

traysee Published 11/16/2006 6:32 Just popping in Joined 02/05/2005 Comments 12

When I install this module on my local server - it works great. When I installed it to a hosting site (http://www.110mb.com) for a client, the module loads but does not display ANY information about ANY weather conditions, it does retrieve the list of cities from the database. No errors are given, it just displays the banner and the choice of cities. Also, when I use the small block on the left, it's the same thing, doesn't display anything. I love this module - but how can I get it to work on a remote server?

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Peekay Published 11/19/2006 11:42 Updated 11/19/2006 11:45 XOOPS is my life! Joined 11/20/2004 Comments 2335

Tried the 1.2 version on XOOPS 2.0.13.2. It all works nicely except the 'This is your first time in admin' message still appears and I too get the above mentioned 'Fai' problem when using centigrade in the block. The block issue is a minor niggle, but it would be nice if the admin message prob could be sorted.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Twiztid Published 11/22/2006 19:38 Just popping in Joined 07/21/2006 Comments 49

I'll keep checking back looking for the fix to the block error...

It's weird how sometimes it says "Fair" and other times it says "Fai"

weird weird weird

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Mamba Published 12/25/2006 15:11 Moderator Joined 04/23/2004 Comments 11409

My host provider turned

allow_url_fopen

to OFF (before it was ON in PHP4).

Now I am get the following errors:

Warning [PHP]: file(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in file modules/weather/blocks/weather_block.php line 29

Warning [PHP]: file(http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USAL0054&u=f): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in file modules/weather/blocks/weather_block.php line 29

The offending line 29 is:

$lines = file ($url);

How can we rewrite it to something that doesn't require allow_url_fopen to be ON.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

dpfresh Published 01/19/2007 1:31 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Hi all... have been swamped... will try to get back to the weather mod before long... If anyone wants to take the ball and run with it lemme know and I will set up CVS and all that so others can contribute code and what not...

- David

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 02/01/2007 10:10 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Only the block is working for 2days now, on module's page it shows just the "change city" menu and switch between C & F degrees , can anyone else confirm this?

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

zyspec Published 02/01/2007 14:02 Module Developer Joined 09/21/2004 Comments 1095

DefianceB0y is correct. The xml feed that the main index is using is no longer valid. It was attempting to use:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecast/_.html

Apparently yahoo changed their xml feed location.

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Peekay Published 02/01/2007 16:36 Updated 02/01/2007 17:14 XOOPS is my life! Joined 11/20/2004 Comments 2335

Quote:

Apparently yahoo changed their xml feed location.

Eek!.

Anyone know the new feed address?. I can see where it is defined in index.php, around line 113.

-- Edit --

index.php
Lines 50, 113 and 117
Change:
http//xml.weather.yahoo.com....
to:
http//weather.yahoo.com....

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 02/01/2007 18:17 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Does it work after those modifications?

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

Peekay Published 02/01/2007 20:14 XOOPS is my life! Joined 11/20/2004 Comments 2335

Does for me

Re: Simple Weather Module Released

aph3x Published 02/01/2007 21:48 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Worked like a charm , thanks a lot Peekay

Simple Weather 1.3 released!

dpfresh Published 02/02/2007 21:42 Just popping in Joined 04/18/2005 Comments 27

Hi all... sorry it's taken a while to post this update..

FILE:
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1350&release_id=1184&dl=3087

INFO:
OK... so this release should make this module completely compatible with XOOPS 2.xx etc....

Fixes:
1) yahoo recently changed their format causing the index page in the module come up empty, this has been fixed
2) The weather block would sometimes have the letters of the forecast "Fair", "Windy", etc chopped off - this has been fixed
3) The previous version would blast everything in the cache directory when the end user selected a different city or the admin changed the default city.... shouldn't be a problem any more... just don't set a cache for this module or the weather block and changes to the default city should display immediately...

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

gtanime Published 04/03/2007 23:38 Just popping in Joined 11/07/2006 Comments 6

Hi.. here is a gift
For the ones who needs to set up a default country or town in their weather I found this page with all the airport codes or ICAO http://www.airport-technology.com/icao-codes/G.html

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

tzvook Published 05/11/2007 7:46 Updated 05/11/2007 7:48 Just can't stay away Joined 02/01/2003 Comments 875

Funny to nump it after so long (4got all about it)
But as for hacking the lang for the block the hack is like this (I still think how to make it work with lang files ...

BASED on 1.3 (new version)

open blocks/weather_block.html
right after:

 $block['image'] = eregi_replace('',"",$lines[$imageLine]);         
        $block['current'] = eregi_replace('',"",$lines[$CurrentConditionsText]);

Add

 // Tzvook dirty hack 2 replace Lang vars // 
    $block['current'] = eregi_replace('Sunny',"_YOUR-LANG-FOR-SUNNY_",$lines[$CurrentConditionsText]); 
 
    $block['current'] = eregi_replace('cloudy',"_YOUR-LANG-FOR-CLOUDY",$lines[$CurrentConditionsText]);

If someone will help with entering it to a lang file ... all will be good

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

aph3x Published 07/14/2007 22:39 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Yahoo played again with its format or something 'cause this doesn't work again to me...can anyone else can confirm this please?

Thanks

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

Northern Published 07/15/2007 4:29 Just can't stay away Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 420

it seames to be working
http://www.northernneons.com/modules/weather/

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

aph3x Published 07/15/2007 9:30 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

Oky thanks, then i really don't know what's wrong as i haven't done anything on the server in the past week and it just stopped showing data

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

Peekay Published 07/15/2007 11:52 Updated 07/15/2007 11:53 XOOPS is my life! Joined 11/20/2004 Comments 2335

I can confirm, it's still working for me at the moment.

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

aph3x Published 07/17/2007 10:05 Theme Designer Joined 12/26/2004 Comments 834

now it works again LOL, and again i haven't done anything on the server...this was just to weird for me

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

Published 07/18/2007 10:01 Updated 07/18/2007 10:04 Joined Comments

I just tried this as it looks to be just what I need. Trouble is that to module took ages to display the index page and when it did (after aquite a few minutes) the index page was blank except for the drop-down box with the cities list and the "F / C" toggle.

Yahoo displays the weather for my location just fine, so it's probably something in my set-up.

Any tips as to what the problem might be?

Re: Simple Weather 1.3 released!

Published 07/19/2007 18:42 Joined Comments

My problem sorted, and it was absolutely nothing to do with the module

The hosting company, by default, doesn't allow php files and other scripts to call other webpages. This is blocked at the firewall.

However, if one requests permission.......

Excellent module - very many thanks

Re: Replacing Yahoo! City name with Own City Name

wazing Published 10/10/2007 23:50 Just popping in Joined 02/28/2007 Comments 2

For weather locations that you must pick a "nearby" town when the exact location is not in the Yahoo! weather site, how would you edit the code to pull the city name (for all locations to make this easier) from the "Name (City, State):" field in the database instead? This would be EXTREMELY helpful for getting more remote locations represented. Thanks...

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