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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 11, 2003 - 04:26 PM

  I'm using postnuke 7.1
  downloaded weather, pn_weather, and weather2 from this site and passions.de
  missing images and it's not pulling info from MSNBC
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  the drop down menu doesn't work, gives me an error.
  This was simple to install so it's driving me a bit nuts
  see it here
  http://www.footballhangout.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=weather&file=index
  
  What am I doing wrong? Maybe just a link to a sure working zip file?
  appreciate the help

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 12, 2003 - 01:13 AM

  the one that pulls data from MSNBC does not always succeed, so I get broken images and -18C too, I dont think its a problem with the module though.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 12, 2003 - 12:32 PM

  I needed a module that would let me have the forcast for a given city to display on my site.
  I couldnt find what I wanted so I wrote a perl script that grabs weather from noaa, They are free and always available.
  
  But I had a hard time rendering the decoded output so I went searching and found this site:
  http://www.rtccom.net/~thammer/phorecast-0.1.tgz/
  
  Phorecast is great it isnt graphical or a PN module but it does put the weather on your page for a given city.. I just put the script in a core/php block and it worked great!
  
  there is also phpwheather 2.12 that will do this for more citys and you can customize the out put as you wish. both would be a great canidate for a PN module if the right people worked on it...

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 13, 2003 - 01:29 AM

  mils,
  OK you've got me confused. Do I grab Phorecast or it isn't for postnuke so ...don't?
  I think I saw that noaa stuff in a post/article on this site. Ya had me confused there too. From my perspective(if it helps you to hear another) when you start mentioning these other formats I'm leery and paranoid I'll install that and mess up other things because it's not compatible.So in my opinion a rewrite of your post/article would probably get ya a ton of new users. My 2 cents, worth a little less

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 13, 2003 - 01:30 AM

  chAM

  the one that pulls data from MSNBC does not always succeed, so I get broken images and -18C too, I dont think its a problem with the module though.

  
  Nice to see didn't work so smoothly for someone else.
  what do you think it's a problem with then?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 13, 2003 - 02:13 AM

  I think it could be with MSNBC connection. Most of the time it works fine for me.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 13, 2003 - 07:17 PM

  The problem is that MSNBC has changed from the traditional 4 letter combination to a six letter combination to determine the city. Weather is set up to use the 4 letter. Or something like that.

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  Posted: Aug 13, 2003 - 09:46 PM

  But in this case how come it works most of the time?
  
  bri:
  

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  I'm using postnuke 7.1

  
  I would strongly advise you to upgrade to the latest ver BTW

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 15, 2003 - 04:17 PM

  I used PHP us weather and got something working
  links here if ya wanna see
  http://www.footballhangout.com/index.php?module=Static_Docs&func=view&f=weather.html

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 15, 2003 - 04:19 PM

  tobyc, got a link to those new codes? the one with the script is still to the 4 character ones

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 15, 2003 - 07:31 PM

  Sorry all but it isn't six but eight letter designation. And you can get them from MSNBC just follow the local weather site and find your city or the ones that you are interested in. Take a look at the link and you will find the 8 letter city code at the end of the URL.
  
  The URL for my hometown is http://www.msnbc.com/news/wea_front.asp?tab=&ta=y&inst=n&action=a&pos=&cty=CAXX0333 So the last eight characters CAXX0333 are the city code.
  
  The URL for NY, NY is http://www.msnbc.com/news/wea_front.asp?tab=&ta=y&inst=n&action=a&pos=&cty=USNY0996 So it's code would be USNY0966

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