BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For CumulusMX

[steve]

Wouldn't str_replace() work instead of mb_ereg_replace()?

[Buford T. Justice]

There was a reason to use mb_ereg_replace instead, but I cannot remember what it was.

[JTS]

@steve
Can I put in a feature request for <#RCpresstrendval>

@JTS
Open bt-sager-cu.php in your Cumulus web folder and...

CHANGE:

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$bp = mb_ereg_replace (",",".","<#press>");
$bt = mb_ereg_replace (",",".","<#presstrendval>");

TO:

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$bp = str_replace (",",".","<#press>");
$bt = str_replace (",",".","<#presstrendval>");

Save the file then wait for Cumulus to perform a web update.

Made the changes but it still does not show any text. Will have another try later.

Neil

[JTS]

Well after an hour of looking at this again, I still cant work it out. I have loaded the amends that were suggested but still dont have any text.

Thanks for taking the time to help, I'll try and find time to look again next weekend.

Neil

[Buford T. Justice]

http://www.highwychweather.co.uk/bt-sager.php

Your web host is blocking it.

[Buford T. Justice]

I have a test version of bt-sager-cu.php which may fix the issue I will PM to you.

[Stuart5646]

Hi,

very new to all thid not sure what I am doing wrong but I get a series of warnings about being unable to get file for the metar data text file;

Interestingly our local airport Leeds Bradford doesn't appear in the NOAA pages


Kind regards

[steve]

Interestingly our local airport Leeds Bradford doesn't appear in the NOAA pages

Leeds Bradford is EGNM: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observ ... s/EGNM.TXT

[Buford T. Justice]

Hi,

very new to all thid not sure what I am doing wrong but I get a series of warnings about being unable to get file for the metar data text file;

Interestingly our local airport Leeds Bradford doesn't appear in the NOAA pages


Kind regards

What's your weather website address? Also make sure you are using the right one as steve pointed out.

[Buford T. Justice]

A new version will be released tomorrow. For you guys who have file_get_contents blocked by your web server hosts, I am converting over to cURL. You will have to make sure your web server host supports both PHP and cURL.

[Stuart5646]

Interestingly our local airport Leeds Bradford doesn't appear in the NOAA pages

Leeds Bradford is EGNM: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observ ... s/EGNM.TXT

Thanks Steve,

When I put EGNM in on the script is said no file, so I went to the directory on the http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observ ... r/stations and couldn't find it there so tried EGNJ as next best but got the "get file error" as below

[joewith]

Hi BT,

Well, have been running the new Weathercaster and wanted to let you know it appears to be running quite well and is fairly accurate. I even received my first forecast for snow this morning.

Forecast:
Snow or showers followed by improvement early in period (within 6 hours); No important change. Some tendency for slight increase in winds during day, diminishing in evening. Shifting (or variable) winds.

And guess what it is currently snowing!

[PaulMy]

Congratulations Joe. I haven't had the "snow" forecast yet since BT updated the script, but that could change over the next days.

Paul

[studebaker]

BT - thanks for the great update. Environment Canada is forecasting snow for this area later tomorrow (Jan 15). I'm anxious to see it show up on the BT forecast.

[Buford T. Justice]

Thanks guys!

BT's Global Sager Weathercaster PHP Scripts For Cumulus have been updated. A few needed changes and improvements have been made. If you were running a version prior to version 2014-01-11, you will need to go through the directions entirely. For those of you running 2014-01-11, here is how to easily upgrade to the 2014-01-14 version:

Download the attachment in the first post. Extract the files to the Cumulus web folder. Open bt-sager-cu.php. Change the XXXX on Line 14 to the METAR station ID you want to use. Save the file. If you are using PHP webpages, open bt-sager-wc.php and scroll all the way down to the bottom if it. Add // and a space in front of Line 6144. Save the file. Upload all three files once to your web server. Wait for Cumulus to perform a web update in order to see the forecast.

Changes...

2014-01-14
A few people were having issues with their web server hosts blocking PHP's file_get_contents which was needed by the PHP Scripts to get METAR data. I have changed this to cURL which seems to be turned on usually (at least more so than file_get_contents). If your web server host doesn't have cURL, you can ask for it to be turned on for your account or I can give you the code to change cURL back over to file_get_contents if the previous version of these PHP Scripts worked for you.

I decided to take BCJKiwi's advice and have defaults set for $m2 and $m3. The PHP Scripts should now not report any errors in XAMPP after the METAR station ID is entered in and Cumulus updates bt-sager-cu.php.

I fixed an issue with changing commas to decimal points.

A few other tweaks to the PHP Scripts have been made.