Weather Plugin

lamy · Post by **lamy** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:19 pm

Hi!

I recently found a php class for the Yahoo! Weather API and decided to create a sidebar plugin with it.

Preview: http://jan.inaustralia.de/

There's still some work to do, some things (Display temperature in Fahrenheit) don't work correctly yet and I have no Idea what to do with thise CVS files...

However, what do you think about it so far?

p.s.: first plugin I try to create

lamy · Post by **lamy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:17 am

So,

here a first version. Should work correctly.

The only things you need are serendipity and php.

http://inaustralia.de/serendipity_plugin_weather.zip

Post by **mattsches** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:43 am

Works perfectly for me

Good work.

If you don't mind, I'd like to suggest some modifications:

constants should be written in uppercase, I guess ("echo aktuelleswetter" confused me a little at first)

leave the default server path empty, or set it to $_SERVER['upload_tmp_dir'], or, even better: $serendipity['serendipityPath'] . PATH_SMARTY_COMPILE (don't know if this actually works, but you should give it a try)

add lang includes for UTF-8!!

and maybe you can find a way to translate the weather conditions to other languages?

These are only my suggestions, for the next version maybe

Or, you could try to bundle it with our current weather plugin?

- Mattsches

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:56 am

Hi!

Looks nice, basically. It doesn't yet show anything more than the current s9y weather plugin, does it?

Maybe you'd like to show your code to us?

Regards,
Garvin

lamy · Post by **lamy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:13 pm

Hi!

No, it doesn't show anything else - but it helps people like me who are not able to install this server plugin you need - my hoster does not allow that, for instance. The whole code is inside the zip file I posted above.

@Mattsches: Thanks for the suggestions! But what has to be inside the UTF-8-Files? I am actually working on a translation right now

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Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:25 pm

Hi!

No, it doesn't show anything else - but it helps people like me who are not able to install this server plugin you need - my hoster does not allow that, for instance. The whole code is inside the zip file I posted above.

You can download the PEAR::Weather file and just put the files into your bundled-libs/ subdirectory of s9y, though.

Best regards,
Garvin

lamy · Post by **lamy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:33 pm

Already read about that solution and tried it - but it didn't work =/

lamy · Post by **lamy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:27 pm

Hm, how can I somehow define arrays as constants?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 2:30 pm

Hi!

About the weather plugin: How did you call your files/directories? If you extracted the Weather directory/files not as

bundled-libs/Services/Weather.php
etc.

then it can't work. But else it should.

lamy wrote:Hm, how can I somehow define arrays as constants?

That's not possible.

Best regards,
Garvin

lamy · Post by **lamy** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:31 pm

Hm, don't remember that...

However, I think this is the easiest way for me to use my plugin since it is ready to use

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Apart from that, it made some fun to create it

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p.s.: thanks

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