How to put beaufort text into banner.php?

[William Grimsley]

Hi Steve/others,

I've been trying to put beaufort text instead of beaufort number into the banner.php file.

Currently, I have the beaufort number showing.

In the cvalues area of the banner.php, I currently have this:

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// Current field names (matches tag fields) used
$SITE['cvalues'] = array(
    "date","time","temp","hum","dew","wspeed","wgust","avgbearing","rrate",
    "rfall","press","wdir","beaufort","windunit","tempunit","pressunit","rainunit",
    "windrun","presstrend","rmonth","ryear","rfallY","intemp","inhum","wchill",
    "temptrendval","tempTH","TtempTH","tempTL","TtempTL",
    "windTM","TwindTM","wgustTM","TwgustTM",
    "pressTH","TpressTH","pressTL","TpressTL",
    "cversion","cbuild");

I tried changing:

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"wdir","beaufort","windunit"

To (I had put the <#beaudesc> web tag in the realtime.txt file):

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"wdir","beaudesc","windunit"

But, that made all the other units except humidity display different units.

Please can someone help?

Thanks,

William

[steve]

I suspect it's because the beaufort description can be more than one word, so can get parsed as separate items. Try putting quotes around the web tag in your custom realtime.txt file - "<#beaudesc>". I don't know whether that will work because I don't know enough about the PHP "explode" function (which splits the line up).

If it doesn't work, you could change the delimeter in your realtime.txt file to something like "|" instead of space, and then change the code in banner.php:

Change

// Read data into array
$DATA = get_raw($SITE['hloc'] . $SITE['datafile'],' ');

to

// Read data into array
$DATA = get_raw($SITE['hloc'] . $SITE['datafile'],'|');

Anything else which uses your custom realtime.txt file would have to cope with that change too, of course.

[William Grimsley]

Hi Steve,

Ok, it looks like what you said about the banner.php file, works. But, now my realtime.txt file has stopped updating.

Thanks for your help,

William

[steve]

A possibly better way occurs to me: go back to using the beaufort number, put an array of descriptions in the PHP, and use the number to index the array.

[William Grimsley]

A possibly better way occurs to me: go back to using the beaufort number, put an array of descriptions in the PHP, and use the number to index the array.

[William Grimsley]

Ok, this what I have changed back to, so far.

In the realtime.txt file:

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<#date format=dd/mm/yy> <#timehhmmss> <#temp> <#hum>% <#dew> <#wspeed> <#wlatest> <#bearing> <#rrate> <#rfall> <#press> <#currentwdir> <#beaufortnumber> <#windunit> <#tempunitnodeg> <#pressunit> <#rainunit> <#windrun> <#presstrendval> <#rmonth> <#ryear> <#rfallY> <#intemp> <#inhum> <#wchill> <#temptrend> <#tempTH> <#TtempTH> <#tempTL> <#TtempTL> <#windTM> <#TwindTM> <#wgustTM> <#TwgustTM> <#pressTH> <#TpressTH> <#pressTL> <#TpressTL> <#version> <#build> <#wgust> <#heatindex> <#humidex> <#UV> <#ET> <#SolarRad> <#avgbearing> <#rhour> <#forecastnumber> <#isdaylight> <#SensorContactLost> <#wdir> <#cloudbasevalue> <#cloudbaseunit> <#apptemp> <#SunshineHours> <#CurrentSolarMax> <#IsSunny> 

In the banner.php file:

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$DATA = get_raw($SITE['hloc'] . $SITE['datafile'],' ');

And:

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$SITE['cvalues'] = array(
    "date","time","temp","hum","dew","wspeed","wgust","avgbearing","rrate",
    "rfall","press","wdir","beaufort","windunit","tempunit","pressunit","rainunit",
    "windrun","presstrend","rmonth","ryear","rfallY","intemp","inhum","wchill",
    "temptrendval","tempTH","TtempTH","tempTL","TtempTL",
    "windTM","TwindTM","wgustTM","TwgustTM",
    "pressTH","TpressTH","pressTL","TpressTL",
    "cversion","cbuild");

And:

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$text = ret_value("beaufort");

Now, what do I do?

[beteljuice]

You could try posting in the banner thread, or you could try doing what Steve said ....

Declare a descriptive array

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/* Beaufort 0 to 12 in array */
$langBeaufort = Array ( 
 "Calm", "Light Air", "Light Breeze", "Gentle Breeze", "Moderate Breeze", "Fresh Breeze",
 "Strong Breeze", "Near Gale", "Gale", "STRONG GALE", "STORM",
 "VIOLENT STORM", "HURRICANE"
);

// then your 'look-up'
$text = $langBeaufort[ret_value("beaufort")];

[William Grimsley]

You could try posting in the banner thread, or you could try doing what Steve said ....

Declare a descriptive array

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$langBeaufort = Array ( 
"Calm", "Light Air", "Light Breeze", "Gentle Breeze", "Moderate Breeze", "Fresh Breeze",
 "Strong Breeze", "Near Gale", "Gale", "STRONG GALE", "STORM",
 "VIOLENT STORM", "HURRICANE"
);

// then your 'look-up'
$text = $langBeaufort[ret_value("beaufort")];

Hi beteljuice,

Thanks very much! Your fix worked!

All I've done is changed:

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$langBeaufort = Array ( 
"Calm", "Light Air", "Light Breeze", "Gentle Breeze", "Moderate Breeze", "Fresh Breeze",
 "Strong Breeze", "Near Gale", "Gale", "STRONG GALE", "STORM",
 "VIOLENT STORM", "HURRICANE"
);

To:

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/* Beaufort 0 to 12 in array */
$langBeaufort = Array ( 
"Calm", "Light air", "Light breeze", "Gentle breeze", "Moderate breeze", "Fresh breeze",
 "Strong breeze", "Near gale", "Gale", "Strong gale", "Storm",
 "Violent storm", "Hurricane"
);

So, that the beaufort scale texts match up with the Cumulus beaufort scale texts!

Thanks,

William

[beteljuice]

The capitalization of the last four descriptions was to reinforce their severity.
ie. Don't go out and batten down the hatches !