[Block] Local Weather

[darkorical]

Since the weather blocks I found either by searching or looking in the index seemed either too flashy or busted (bad link) I put this together

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better code further down

*Special Thanks to JPDeni for helping to pull the user location**

[JPDeni]

The only thing that might end up causing trouble is that people put in things other than their actual location. I often use "near Seattle" because no one except people around here have heard of the town I live in. One member of my board has "in front of the laptop again" and another one has "off with the fairies." I don't know what you'll get with those locations.

But it looks like good code anyway.

[darkorical]

hmm good point with those kind of locations you get a error Ill see if I can fix it

[darkorical]

alright here's a quick and dirty work around
basically it tells everyone that the better their location the more accurate their weather will be and if they have something like "in front of my laptop" or "drifting in obscurity" they wont get nasty looking errors

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?><center>To get better results enter a more precise city and state</center><hr>
<?php
error_reporting(0);
global $ID_MEMBER, $context,$memberContext;
loadMemberData($ID_MEMBER);
loadMemberContext($ID_MEMBER);
if($memberContext[$ID_MEMBER]['location'] == ""){echo 'If you enter your City and State on your profile this block will show you your local weather.';}
else{
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDoc->load('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather='.$memberContext[$ID_MEMBER]['location'].'');
$params=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('weather');       
$params2 = $params->item($k)->getElementsByTagName('current_conditions') ; 
     
$i=0; // values is used to iterate categories
$params3 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('condition');
  $params4 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('temp_f');
$params5 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('humidity');
$params6 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('icon');
$params7 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('wind_condition');
              echo '
<table>
    <tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="center"><img src="http://www.google.com/ig'.$params6->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'"></td>
<td>'.$params3->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'.$params4->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'Ã,°F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">'.$params5->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">'.$params7->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'</td>
</tr>
</table>';
}


[JPDeni]

Sounds like a good idea. With programming, there's always something.

[darkorical]

ok whats up with that I got an email saying there had been a reply to this thread and I get here and find nothing new

[IchBin]

Someone could have replied and then deleted their reply because they could have either posted in the wrong topic, or didn't want their post here anymore.

[dry3210]

Added!  Had something like this a long time ago but it stopped working.  This is great

Although it doesn't load the entire forum when I change my location to something goofy which was sort of mentioned above.

A nice addition might be to add a link to "5 day forecast" or something.  Could even have that go to an article/page that was embedded still

[dry3210]

Hmm...upon further use it stopped working altogether and wouldn't let the forum load right.

Perhaps google has issues with so many people from the same site repeatedly grabbing the weather info? 

[darkorical]

hmm I don't know my site is an intranet site that never has more than 10 people at a time and its hard coded with the location

Ill try to look into it

[dry3210]

And I made it visible after hiding it for about an hour and now its working and good for the moment.

Weird. 

Awesome though so hopefully it'll keep working this time

[wilsy]

I'm using this block in a slightly different way on two of my sites - thanks for the share

[sandmannd]

What type of code do I put this in as? I've used PHP, java script and HTML and none of those work. 

[dry3210]

What type of code do I put this in as? I've used PHP, java script and HTML and none of those work. 

PHP block

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error_reporting(0);
global $ID_MEMBER, $context,$memberContext;
loadMemberData($ID_MEMBER);
loadMemberContext($ID_MEMBER);
if($memberContext[$ID_MEMBER]['location'] == ""){echo 'If you enter your City and State on your profile this block will show you your local weather.';}
else{
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDoc->load('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather='.$memberContext[$ID_MEMBER]['location'].'');
$params=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('weather');       
$params2 = $params->item($k)->getElementsByTagName('current_conditions') ;
     
$i=0; // values is used to iterate categories
$params3 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('condition');
$params4 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('temp_f');
$params5 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('humidity');
$params6 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('icon');
$params7 = $params2->item($i)->getElementsByTagName('wind_condition');
              echo '
<table>
    <tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="center"><img src="http://www.google.com/ig'.$params6->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'"></td>
<td>'.$params3->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'.$params4->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'Ã,°F</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">'.$params5->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">'.$params7->item($j)->getAttribute('data').'</td>
</tr>
</table>';
}


I think he added a line at the beginning or end that you don't need.  I forget. 

[sandmannd]

Nope, that doesn't get it to work for me either.

[ZarPrime]

I don't know why it isn't working for you.  Are you using the code in the fourth post in this topic?

It works fine for me except that the cloudy.png link is broken.  You have to make sure you have put a location into your Forum Profile Information.  And it has to be a reasonable location.  LA won't work but Los Angeles, CA probably will.

One reason I won't use it though is because it add 6 seconds to my page creation time.

ZarPrime

[stigmartyr]

So I noticed that the google xml feed already has the forecast in it, but the PHP block isn't calling it out?

Is there a way to include that forecast or at least a link to it?  I like the block and I'm using it on my site, just think it needs forecasting to be truly useful.

[darkorical]

So I noticed that the google xml feed already has the forecast in it, but the PHP block isn't calling it out?

Is there a way to include that forecast or at least a link to it?  I like the block and I'm using it on my site, just think it needs forecasting to be truly useful.

yea there is a way
Step 1. Expand script to return the results of the forecast
Step 2. Embed new script into custom page
Step 3. Add link to forecast page at bottom of block

When I get a chance Ill work on step 1 but step 2 and 3 will be up to end user (Ill offer assistance tho)

[stigmartyr]

So I noticed that the google xml feed already has the forecast in it, but the PHP block isn't calling it out?

Is there a way to include that forecast or at least a link to it?  I like the block and I'm using it on my site, just think it needs forecasting to be truly useful.

yea there is a way
Step 1. Expand script to return the results of the forecast
Step 2. Embed new script into custom page
Step 3. Add link to forecast page at bottom of block

When I get a chance Ill work on step 1 but step 2 and 3 will be up to end user (Ill offer assistance tho)

Sweet - I'd be HAPPY to do steps 2 and 3   You're the man.  Thanks for helping out with this.