Moon icon

[Palmyweather]

I understand that the graphics that are uploaded from Cumulus are snapshots of the program itself (like the wind rose and moon phase).

Is there any way to change the moon graphic so that it matches the other weather icons I use on my site?

[steve]

I don't really understand what you're asking. There's no way to change the image as displayed in Cumulus (and hence no way to change the moon.bmp file that Cumulus produces). Apart from providing me with an alternative Delphi component to use, of course.

What would it need to look like to match the other weather icons you use on your site? I had a quick look but it wasn't obvious. Do you mean you want it to have a transparent background? The easiest way to get a different moon image on your site would probably be to use something other than the one Cumulus produces - a few people have done this, there are some quite nice ones out there - Mark Crossley has written his own, I believe.

[Synewave]

Palmyweather,

One that seems to be popular is the one I use on my site. It's not as dynamic as Steve's, and has 8 (I think) phases. However, it is produced by adding the moonphase webtag into an extra realtime file, Cumulus process and FTP it. Then use Javascript in the webpage to read the extra realtime file and display an image based on the name of the moonphase image. So a little complicated really, but totally achievable if you are a little comfortable with javascript. If you want some code, let me know.

[steve]

That one you use is quite nice, Paul. I think it would fit in well on the Palmy Weather site.

[gemini06720]

Indeed, the moon icon on Paul's page is quite nice.

On my site, I use both a PHP script (used when the page is first downloaded to the user's browser) and a JavaScript (for near real-time updating) to control 28 different moon icons - in fact, the scripts control 56 moon icons, 28 icons for the northern hemisphere and 28 icons for the southern hemisphere. The 'moon' scripts do not rely on any weather software to produce their phases (icons and texts) - the scripts only need the proper latitude, longitude and hemisphere (either 'NH' or 'SH').

On my main page ([link removed]), the moon phase icon is not displayed during the daylight hours as it is replaced by a thumbnail image of the weather WebCam but the text for the phase of the moon is continuously display.

Ray.

[GraemeT]

I think this thread might have the information you're looking for:
https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2505

This is the php code I use:

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...html
<td width="10%" rowspan="3" align="center"><?php echo '<img src="../images/moon/' . rawurlencode($moonphase) . '.png" alt="" width="60" height="60" />' ?></td>
more html...

Cheers,

[Synewave]

Graeme's method above certainly is a much simpler way to achieve the same result as mine, without using any Javascript.

[Palmyweather]

It's a lot easier than any way I was thinking. Should have given it a bit more thought to figure this one out myself.

[Krumlov]

Don't know if this has been posted before but just came across this and I'm now using it on my site:

http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phase ... ases.phtml

Works well!

Here is my site: http://www.users.on.net/~gavin_n/weather

[gwheelo]

Another example of the moon phase gadget above.

http://www.wheelocknet.net/cumulus/today.html?gb

GW

[MickinMoulden]

Don't know if this has been posted before but just came across this and I'm now using it on my site:

http://www.calculatorcat.com/moon_phase ... ases.phtml

Works well!

Here is my site: http://www.users.on.net/~gavin_n/weather

I've seen that before on someones site, looks good. I like the % value. By the way, is that a webcam picture you use for your background? I haven't seen that before. I use a webcam picture (1 of 6 pics) on my home page as well. Mines just a LOT smaller