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Modules: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Posted by: daviddOn 2002/10/18 1:48:56 8905 reads

Hi All,
I have released the next version of Xp-Weather (1.3). This version should work better with dark themes, This is for a-dog

The config.php file supports settings for proxy support. If you are behind a poxy you should now be able to fetch the weather feed. UK feeds should be better supported now as well, Some are not updated as frequently as others.

For those stations I am now pulling the extended forcast (TAF) record and using that information in the block. A number of cosmetic bugs have been fixed and a new weather object created that will someday support pulling NOAA feeds. This release also now supports the new longer TWC internal station identifiers as well as WMO ICAO codes.

Thanks to all who tested this release and provided feedback.

Dave

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Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

destrux Published 10/18/2002 1:59 Moderator Joined 06/03/2002 Comments 57

Just a note for those who are wondering....you can download it in the download section. Right now it's on the front page when you go there but if you don't see it there then look in the modules section for RC3,

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

davidd Published 10/18/2002 3:15 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Whoops! Thanks destrux.

Dave

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/18/2002 4:19 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

I downloaded and this is the first time i use this module.

I went to configure for all users.. the first page shows at the bottom the 'save changes' button.. but when I go to chance the country, then city, then station.. it refreshes everytime I pick one. .but at the end it keeps refreshing saying 'change the station'.. and at the bottom doesn't show anylonger the button 'save changes' ..

so i'm stuck without being avable to change the settings.. if i click back on the xp-weather link on the main menu it doesn't show any changes and go back to sn francisco, ca , usa.

In conclusion I could change only the 'winds speed' and the temperature from farenheit to celcuis because that is selectable at the bottom.

help!

Go to see my site and try to change the weather and let me now what's wrong please.... thanks.

use the following info to get in: Alias = test and password = test

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

SirTanksAlot Published 10/18/2002 4:40 Friend of XOOPS Joined 08/14/2002 Comments 34

I just downloaded v1.3 and I'm attempting to install it for the first time. I can't "install" the module through the admin pages. Everytime I try to add XP-Weather, I get a blank screen and it appears that nothing has happened...

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

TBrillon Published 10/18/2002 5:12 Just popping in Joined 09/01/2002 Comments 9

Nice!! Thanx for the update!

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

schipper Published 10/18/2002 10:39 Just popping in Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 15

Same problem with changing cities on my site. Nearly finished the dutch translation, though.

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/18/2002 13:54 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

HELP HELP HELP

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

davidd Published 10/18/2002 19:12 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Hi Guys,
Sorry your having trouble with this. I checked your site Bazus and it looks like the change.php program can't access the outside Internet in order to pull the station ID from the weather channel site. The weather module is using the snoopy http client class in order to fetch the weather channel internal identifier for a given location.

Dave

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

davidd Published 10/18/2002 19:14 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Hi schipper,
Did you send me a message about doing a dutch translation? someone did and I lost the message, if that was you sorry about that. If you send me the language files I will put them into the next 1.4 release.

Thanks,
Dave

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

davidd Published 10/18/2002 19:18 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Hi SirTanksAlot,
hmmm, I am not sure what the problem is, all the install is doing it creating the tables and data for the module and updating the XOOPS module tables. I am not sure how to help with this one.

Dave

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

davidd Published 10/18/2002 20:18 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Note: There are two URLs that the xp-weather program needs access to. They can be found in the include/config.php file.

test them in a browser from the server XOOPS is running on to make sure you get a response.

Dave

Note2: make sure the cache directory is writeable. The weather data cache is not required to still show the data for a given location; however, in order to change the location the cache must be writable so the xml parser can process the list of new locations fetched from the website.

Dave

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

davidd Published 10/18/2002 22:33 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Hi All,
*****BUG NOTICE with PATCH*****

doh! for those on UNIX this may be at least part of the problem. Thanks to norbert for the pointers.

line 185 of include/phpsimplexml.class.php needs the "&" removed

AND

Line 52 of change.php needs the "\" changed to "/"

Dave

Re: .have a problem switching languages.

Bazus Published 10/18/2002 22:38 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

Finally is working after desactivating Zone Alarm proxy ..

but it works only when I switch from Spanish to English language at admin/system/preferences.. al menus, weather stations work OK.

But... when I switch the language from English to Spanish (I need it in spanish), the module menus don't show and instead you see the blocks names: like :_BLOCKTITLE, _FAHREN (instead of the translation of 'weather' and 'farenheit' into spanish).

And after that configuration is difficult but it goes through.

I guess is a problem of language.. but I translated the main.php and placed it in a folder /languages/spanish

could you go and take alook and help me out.. I bet is a simple change in some language file.

http://www.portalactivo.com/xoops/modules/XP-Weather/index.php (same userid and password = test, test)

Re: .language problem

Bazus Published 10/19/2002 2:28 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

what's this constant for??

$mwlanguage = 1;

in the lenguage/english/admin.php file

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

schipper Published 10/20/2002 16:03 Just popping in Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 15

Dutch language file is ready. Just submitted it to the download section.

Re: .have a problem switching languages.

davidd Published 10/20/2002 18:01 Friend of XOOPS Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 12

Hi Bazus,
you need to translate the block.php as well as main.php, for the _BLOCKTITLE and such to show correctly.

If you do the translation to Spanish do you mind sending me the files and I will include them in the 1.4 release. So others can use them as well.

Thanks,
Dave

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

magic2002 Published 10/20/2002 21:37 Just popping in Joined 09/14/2002 Comments 1

David I am having the same problem with the new realease on XP Weather. When I go and select United Kingdom then choose which region the menu refuses to let me choose what region I whant. The same with other regions and countrys. Now Im no php programmer, so, a nice revamp of XP Weather that actually works would be nice. The Old one before this realse sort of worked but was very buggy. Im not going to activate it untill there is a stable version out.Unless Im doing something completely wrong. Ive chmod them so they are writeable and still nothing works.
I was dissapointed in this, because I was kinda looking forward in having a nice weather block.
Im not distroying your hard work on this, but I was dissapointed in this one. I hope in future realsess there will be a stable module for us to use.

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/21/2002 0:34 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

sorry I was answering in another thread I started 2 days ago..

well, I have translated admin.php.. and I noticed that the block.php is identical to the admin.php.. why is that?? all I did was copy the translated admin.php and renamed it block.php.. I placed them under /language/spanish and the blocks still look like _BLOCKTITLE, _CURCOND, etc..

I placed the translated files into the download area (language area).

So what do you think I should do to make it work?.. it's indeed the block.php identical to main.php ?

the statement at the beggining of the file says:
$nwlanguage = 1;

may I ask what's that for ?

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

schipper Published 10/21/2002 10:57 Just popping in Joined 06/05/2002 Comments 15

It works fine with the dutch translation. Look at http://www.scheeps.net (username: test password: test). Not all the weather stations are working, regretfully.

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Yasha Published 10/21/2002 11:50 Just popping in Joined 10/21/2002 Comments 1

Magic2002, well as I speak this is moot anyhow as it seems he's *just now* releasing 1.3a, but I also had the same problem, fixing the two things he mentioned 7 posts up fixed the issue likity-split. ("&" from phpsimplexml file, "\" to "/" in change file..)

btw, thanks david, been a neat little module.

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/21/2002 15:02 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

I just wondering why doesn't take the spanish translation if it takes the dutch translation. there's nothing differente with my translation, I just created a 'spanish' folder inside the /language and placed the 3 translated files there: blocks.php, admin.php and modinfo.php.

One note is that I don't have other languages in my language folder, I only have 'english' and 'spanish', because those are the ones I'm dealing with now.

So anyone guess what's the problem here ???

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/21/2002 15:18 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

hey Schipper, I went to your site and logged on as test, password test, but I"m not sure if I was logged on because I went to the weather module and try to change the location and it didn't allowed me.. it tells that I'm not logged on yet..

did you check that the user 'test' is registered?? I couldn't understand the message it gave me because is in dutch and I got not idea about that language.

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/21/2002 20:57 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

Finally I have fixed the problem with the help of GIR..

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4098&forum=4

I installed the new version 1.3a and corrected an error in the /language/spanish/admin.php and block.php

The Spanish version for this module is now at the language area in the Download section of xoops.org

Thanks again to GIR for catching that error and to DAVIDD for taking the time to test my site!

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

Bazus Published 10/22/2002 18:14 Not too shy to talk Joined 09/23/2002 Comments 144

could we all go and continue posting about this modue on the forum for XP-Weather V.1.3a ??

I believe there's a bug in it.. I'll post it there:

Re: XP-Weather 1.3 Released

ibzan Published 11/11/2003 9:54 Just popping in Joined 08/31/2003 Comments 48

david,

I noticed in the index.php file that there are two types of stations, the first TWC (the weather channel, weather.com) and the second WMO (world meteorlogical organization, http://www.wmo.ch).

What I can't figure out is why SO many international cities do not locate a station when the data is correct.

In my case I have been trying to add Russian cities, and for example St. Petersburg's WMO index number is 26063 and the ICAO location indicator is ULLI - both of which are correct in the SQL file and both I have confirmed from national weather services of the US (NWS and NOAA) as well as Russian weather services) YET the module can never find a station? Weird.

I did a little playing around and found that if I went and changed the values in the database, namely the accid to the ULLI and the wcid to RSXX0091 - the id for the weather channel, consequenly for MSNBC is module pulls the correct info and it works fine.

A couple of questions:

1) How is the module locating stations

2) How is the wcid value added into the database and where does it come from? The station?

3) Why is there any dilineation between TWO and WMO value within the index.php since it does not appear that the WMO website is ever queried, but only msnbc.accuweather.

Thanks

Chris

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