PHP Web 'viewer' for Cumulus NOAA Style reports

[Darknstormy]

I'm not sure if anyone's asked this before.. but is there a htm version for viewing NOAA reports... sadly my host doesnt support PHP..


cheers

[beteljuice]

There is no problem (?) with having a html page with a report inside it. The tedious bit would be creating the nav menu for available reports.

Let me think about it ..............

[Darknstormy]

There is no problem (?) with having a html page with a report inside it. The tedious bit would be creating the nav menu for available reports.

Let me think about it ..............

Thankyou.. That would be muchly appreciated.. sure there are others out there in the same boat.

[beteljuice]

Rather worringly I've taught JavaScript to check a directory
So now all I've got to do is change all the PHP logic / functions to JavaScript

It won't be as 'robust' or as fast to build the initial page - but it should work

Hmmm ... 2nd and 3rd thoughts I've got to convert some multidimensional arrays, and see if I can still keep the nav button 'highlight' on-the-fly.

I might be some time ...........

[Darknstormy]

I might be some time ...........

times no issue mate, takes as long as it takes.. I "and plenty of others" will greatly appreciate it

[beteljuice]

Now available an alternative stylesheet for use with 'include's which has the button highlights INSIDE the buttons. Useful for pages with a dark background.

noaarep_alt.txt

[Regal_Bhoy]

Anybody know what the following warning is telling me?:

Warning: putenv(): Safe Mode warning: Cannot set environment variable 'TZ' - it's not in the allowed list in /tier-11/pwpstore6/10/shinfieldriseweather/htdocs/NOAA-reports.php on line 160

It appears on my NOAA style reports.

I thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter

[mcrossley]

Yes, if you are running PHP in "safe mode" (as I do), then only certain commands are allowed to 'write' data to the host. Setting the TZ is not allowed. I think there is a later version of the script that fixes this.

[Regal_Bhoy]

Thanks for that - I did not drill down this thread far enough - I will comment out and that should fix.

Much appreciated

[beteljuice]

Tip: If you have existing NOAA style reports from other softwares, then you should be able to copy them to the NOAA-reports directory and as long as you rename them in the Cumulus format they should be found and displayed OK

[duke]

Just wanted to say thanks to beteljuice for all the work he's put into this.

Finally got round to adding it to my site this morning. Took a few minutes and worked first time .

I'll try the alt.css later.

Duke

[duke]

Just looked at my NOAA page and there is a problem displaying the degree sign:

N 50� 57' 58" Lon: W 001� 22' 51"

Temperature (�C),

Nightingale NOAA

What have I failed to do correctly?

Duke

[beteljuice]

I'm glad you see that as well, I'm fed up of people telling me I'm seeing things when I get funny characters on their sites (Including ordinary html) !

The unproven response is the wrong charset is applied to the format in which the file was written and / or saved in.

The report itself is created by Cumulus, Notepad++ says "ANSI as UTF-8"
Notepad++ reports your page as "ANSI as UTF-8", and is declared as UTF-8 in it's META data.

Interestingly, in my browser, your .txt reports show the black diamond, but not in notepad++, the .txt reports on my site do not show the black diamond in my browser

Time for an experiment

Using notepad I want you to modify NOAA-reports.php
MAKE A BACKUP OF IT FIRST !

Go down to about line 430 and change from this:

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 if($rpt){
 	echo "<pre>\n";
	echo preg_replace('|<|Uis','<',$rpt);
	echo "</pre>\n";
}
echo "</div> <!-- END noaa_rep_container -->\n";

To this:

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 if($rpt){
 
// NASTY work-around, the ONLY way I find black diamond question mark (or deg character)
	$checkIt = explode("(", $rpt);
	$dodgy = substr($checkIt[1],0 , 1);

// the ONLY way I can replace when black diamond (unconditionally) to &deg
	$rpt = str_replace($dodgy,'°',$rpt);
// END nasty work around
 
 
	echo "<pre>\n";
	echo preg_replace('|<|Uis','<',$rpt);
	echo "</pre>\n";
}
echo "</div> <!-- END noaa_rep_container -->\n";

Caution: I can't find the real code for the black diamond anywhere This will replace ALL instances of the 'black diamond' with ° (degree symbol)

Edit: a couple of silly errors removed.

Upload the modified file to your site and let's see what happens (Edit: It works !)

If anyone has a definitive answer as to why this kind of problem occurs and how to prevent it in the first place .....

[duke]

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately that did not resolve it.

The result of that was a one line page in XAMPP:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VAR in W:\htdocs\weather\NOAA-reports.php on line 434

and live:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VAR in /home/night239/public_html/weather/NOAA-reports.php on line 434

Duke

[beteljuice]

Sorry - I got a bit of a JavaScript head on, the two var shouldn't be there.

Previous post edited - try that.