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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 27, 2004 - 01:03 PM

  I took down weather 1.26 its just too flaky. Does anyone have either a fixed module for weather or some other alternative that works.

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• nate_02631
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2004 - 03:04 AM

  Check out this post or this one (note highlighted search terms).
  
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• jmvedrine
  
  

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  • Registered: Jan 12, 2004
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  Posted: Jan 28, 2004 - 05:38 AM

  AS the module seems orphan one more time, and everyone is complaining that it don't work anymore. I took the decision to produce a new release that I called 1.30
  Changes I made :
  - The module now use the Snoopy library class for connexion, this will hopefully prevent connexions problems for a certain time (borowed the idea from xp-weather the XOOPS port of the PN-weather module)
  - add a lot of controls to avoid the display of empty values, the -18° temp syndrom, and the famous .gif not found. Not sure that I catch them all !!
  - add icons for the wind directions (adapted from PHP Weather)
  - add new icons collections (23x23 and 36x36 came from MSNBC and all the others including cool intl series with no english words from The Weather Channel). Some icons of the olds sets are no more corresponding to the ones MSNBC now uses (namely 11, 31 and 41) so you must seriously think to switch to one of the new ones !!
  - the module now display the date/time of observation as transmitted by MSNBC rather than the date/time of caching in the database. This needed a new column in the cache table so the upgrade process will delete all the data in the cache table. But no city nor user preference will be deleted. (currently upgrade is supported only from versions 1.26, 1.27 and 1.28 and as a lot of patched versions are floating around, I'm not sure I catch them all !!)
  - MSNBC changed the codes they uses for all the cities from the old 4 lettresformat to a new 4 letters + 4 or 5 digits format. A lot of cities are already in this release (including Western Europe, all USA States, Canada and Brazil) but there is a lot of work left to do. If you wanted to contribute, please contact me
  
  I was about to release this version but indeed I consider this module as no so legal, after all we are "ripping" MSNBC copyrighted data without their consent !! On the other hand I think a lot of us need so badly a weather module for their website.
  
  So I took the decision to rework the module, introducing 2 different methods of getting the data
  
  - method 1 : the original one : ripping them from MSNBC
  - method 2 : use the XML feed from the Weather Chanel (in fact it's the real provider of MSDNBC weather data !)
  The drawback of method 2 is that You must register on the weather.com website in order to get a partner ID and registration key. Today this process is free . I hope it will stay in the future (this is one of the reason for wich I didn't drop method 1, just in case !!)
  
  I have a working beta running on the following sites (thanks to the webmasters for their help in debugging)
  http://www.vedrine.net
  http://www.keopsonline.com
  http://www.famboom.com
  (site 1 use the weather.com XML method, site 2 & 3 the MSNBC method)
  
  Module is nearly ready (just missing correct processing of xml errors messages returned by xoap.weather.com) and I need a few more beta testers just to be sure this release is as bugfree as possible.
  
  I also need help for language files others than french and english.
  
  My intention is to really support this module in the future.
  Thanks.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2004 - 05:57 AM

  I wouldn't mind testing the module as well, and probably can provide a dutch language file for it.
  alain at ropeart.com

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2004 - 09:33 AM

  one forum message had the code replacement for a weather mod.
  I put them in the d/l of wc-126 and seems to be working so far.
  alot better than before.
  The pnuserapi.php had to be edited.
  I haven't had the missing .gif yet like before.
  
  
  HTH
  Mark

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 28, 2004 - 05:53 PM

  I modified one in my site.you can download it.(weather_modify_ver.zip)

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