Weather Blues Template preview

[JacquesD]

Hi Robert,

I think you've got a good simple way to have it right 100%!
Simply replace all "é" with unaccented "e".

But as Beetlejuice mention, Notepad++ could be the solution!
Web pages include a charset="utf-8" (or other) to inform browser about language.
But beside that, the file itself has to be saved with according encoding.

Finally, a good tip about Notepad++ is that it could find any text (é) and replace it by an other (e) in all files in a folder without having to open them. (Sure you can restreint it to only *.html and include subfolders)

And you know, for me... Météo du Quebec or Meteo du Quebec... It's the same!
(I plan also to remove those accents as they are false displayed on min. 10% non french sites.)

Jacques

[gemini06720]

Robert to correct properly the incorrect display of 'Météo du Québec' you have to replace the accentuated characters with either their HTML numerical codes or their HTML friendly codes. Thus:

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Météo du Québec

Météo du Québec

Météo du Québec

I prefer to use the friendly codes as they are somewhat more meaningful.

[RobertY]

Hi gemini06720,

I did a replace of all the Météo du Québec
with
Météo du Québec

Your right, when looking at the code it is easier to tell what that is as opposed to the numeric version.

Thank You!

beteljuice,
Did that fix it for you?

[RobertY]

Rast Rats Rats and DOUBLE RATS!!!

I tried to be slick to be able to save me time in the future and used php includes in the place of the menus. I php include files made up for both menus.

mainmenu.inc and secondarymenu.inc

created the includes folder and put them in it and uploaded them to the directory. Changed all the htm files to have the
<?php include("includes/mainmenu.inc") ?>
or
<?php include("includes/secondarymenu.inc") ?>

in the proper places. Had cumulus process all the files.

Result was NO Menus. LOL!

I have this working on my main site so I can change both menus (top and side) by just changing one single file or two, depending on what menu needed modifying.

But not in my /weather directory. (sigh)

[SJG1976]

Hi Jacques,

Thank you for developing such a good template.

I now have it working well, without understanding all of what I was doing.

Thanks for all yor work.

[beteljuice]

Rast Rats Rats and DOUBLE RATS!!!

... Had cumulus process all the files.

Result was NO Menus. LOL! ...

First of all, as far as I can see the underlying code for the NOAA reports page has not been changed !
(I've cleared my cache and done a forced refresh with the same results) Even if you have used the 'shortcuts' for the copyright, the degree character in the reports would still be 'wrong'. You really need to convert and save the page in the correct format.

Above - what are you saying ?

Are you surprised that you've put PHP code in a html page and it doesn't work ?

If you want a html page to be parsed for PHP, then you need to get your hands dirty and make / edit something called htaccess on your server. Else your pages should be .php NOT .htm, which in turn means you would not use 'include standard pages' but would have to name them yourself in the files to process / upload.

[JacquesD]

Hi SJG,

Happy that this template please you!

Cheers,
Jacques

[SJG1976]

Yes, very very happy thank you.

Just seems to work so well!
Thanks for all your hard work (and along with Steve's software) Ive got what I want, just need to find someone now to develop an iPad app, so I get get the data on that on a I screen real time, for something I can look at when I go to sleep!

Just wish my talents were as good as others on here at developing stuff like this.

And it's nice to have such a friendly forum with people sharing ideas, and knowledge.

[uncle_bob]

just need to find someone now to develop an iPad app, so I get get the data on that on a I screen real time, for something I can look at when I go to sleep!

A couple here:
http://www.undertheweather.co.nz/
http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/index.php?ti ... for_iPhone

[RobertY]

Hi beteljuice,
Way ahead of you. I did the htaccess with the added line:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If you will check with the main site:

http://robertyelverton.info

You will see that it is working properly. There are no menus in place anywhere on that entire site. The nav menus are in the two files of topmenu.inc and leftcontent.inc that is located in an includes folder.

<!-- Top Menu start -->
<?php include("includes/topmenu.inc") ?>
<!-- Top Menu end -->

<!-- start left content -->
<?php include("includes/leftcontent.inc") ?>
<!-- end of content left -->

ARG! My fault on the NOAA reports page. I missed that page when replacing with:

M&eacute;t&eacute;o du Qu&eacute;bec

see if it shows better for you now. If not then I will just do it the other way and replace all with regular e's.

[gemini06720]

Robert, I have no problem seeing your weather pages, including the 'NOAA Style Reports' page. You might have to edit further the 'NOAA Style Reports' page to include a proper title in the header of that page - it is still showing "<#location> | Most recent observations" as it has not been processed by Cumulus - thus the "<#location>" tag has not been replaced with 'Loudon TN"...

[RobertY]

Hi gemini06720,

Thank You for catching that. I tend to miss things like that. Got it corrected. My mind is long past the steel trap days where nothing got past me. LOL!

I went back to the normal pages. Going to back off the php includes for the weather part of my site for now. Was just trying to make menu changes more streamline for me in the future.

[beteljuice]

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Need another line - Cumulus defaults are .htm - no 'l'

... the degree character in the reports would still be 'wrong'. You really need to convert and save the page in the correct format.

[RobertY]

Thanks beteljuice. **bangs head on desk**

I bet that is it. (sigh) That is why it is working on the main site and did not work on the weather site. Main site is html and your correct, weather is just htm.

So monday I will add another line to include htm

[SJG1976]

just need to find someone now to develop an iPad app, so I get get the data on that on a I screen real time, for something I can look at when I go to sleep!

A couple here:
http://www.undertheweather.co.nz/
http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/index.php?ti ... for_iPhone

Thanks, didn't see them, that looks like what I'm after.