Cumulus PHP-GD Banner

[beteljuice]

Are you sure you don't have TWO realtime.txt ?

http://mark014.beep.pl/realtime.txt is updating correctly, but as you say the banner seems to have a different 'period'.
Why is 'realtime' an extrafile - I don't remember that, but I could be wrong

[mcrossley]

Why is 'realtime' an extrafile - I don't remember that, but I could be wrong

Correct, Cumulus will upload at the realtime interval so long as you tick the option in settings, no need to add it as an extra file.

Unless you want to upload at longer than the reltime interval I guess?

[beteljuice]

Unless you want to upload at longer than the reltime interval I guess?

That's why I wandering if there were two files in different places ....

[Mapantz]

I had a similar problem when I first started using the banner. It's possible you may have it too.

It turned out to be a caching problem and to solve it, I added this to my .htaccess file

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<Files banner.php>
FileETag None
Header unset ETag
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
Header set Pragma "no-cache"
Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
</Files>

[beteljuice]

Thanks mapantz - haven't seen that one before.

Does that mean the rest of 'the site' has a cache value set somewhere by hosting admin ?

[Mark14]

Correct, Cumulus will upload at the realtime interval so long as you tick the extrafile in settings, no need to add it as an extra file.

Unless you want to upload at longer than the reltime interval I guess?

No I want to upload the realtime file every 50 secs.

Maybe I put the extrafile when I had previous problems with paths. But I deleted the option and now it works. Thank you for your help.

[Mapantz]

I was wondering if there were any clever folks (there's lots) that could help me with this banner?

I've been using it for years now, and something I would like to do is to have two separate background images, one for day and one for night.

I have done the same thing to the banner on my website, but it was quite easy to implement. However, the banner originally made by Kevin is a little bit more complicated than what I am used to.

I have been doing quite a bit of work to tidy up my site and in particular, reduce the amount of data I upload. I don't upload many pages any more, instead I have created a single php file with every CMX webtag that I use on my site. It has reduced my uploading by 80%.

The reason I mention that is, It has my sunrise and sunset times processed, so it might be easier to implement?

$sunrise = "07:53";
$sunset = "16:05";

etc

Many thanks!

[Mapantz]

OK - Looks like I actually managed to do it by myself..

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include 'mytags.php';
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
$current = time();
$daytime = strtotime('$sunrise');
$nighttime = strtotime('$sunset');
if($daytime <= $current && $current < $nighttime) {
	$baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg("images/day_banner.jpg");
} else {
	$baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg("images/night_banner.jpg");
}

I added that in and tested by changing $sunrise and $sunset to actual times.

I'm sure that small piece of code is about as bad as you can get, but it worked.

[beteljuice]

cross posted !!!

Like many others your banner version does not look for the later fields that have been added to realtime.txt.

in your case:
41 (field # 40) 36.0 10-minute high gust <#wgust>
42 (field # 41) 10.3 Heat index <#heatindex>
43 (field # 42) 10.5 Humidex <#humidex>
44 (field # 43) 13 UV Index <#UV>
45 (field # 44) 0.2 evapotranspiration today <#ET>
46 (field # 45) 14 solar radiation W/m2 <#SolarRad>
47 (field # 46) 260 10-minute average wind bearing (degrees) <#avgbearing>
48 (field # 47) 2.3 rainfall last hour <#rhour>
49 (field # 48) 3 The number of the current (Zambretti) forecast as per Strings.ini. <#forecastnumber>
50 (field # 49) 1 Flag to indicate that the location of the station is currently in daylight (1 = yes, 0 = No) <#isdaylight>
51 (field # 50) 1 If the station has lost contact with its remote sensors "Fine Offset only", a Flag number is given (1 = Yes, 0 = No) <#SensorContactLost>
52 (field # 51) NNW Average wind direction <#wdir>
53 (field # 52) 2040 Cloud base <#cloudbasevalue>
54 (field # 53) ft Cloud base units <#cloudbaseunit>
55 (field # 54) 12.3 Apparent temperature <#apptemp>
56 (field # 55) 11.1 Sunshine hours so far today <#SunshineHours>
57 (field # 56) 420.1 Current theoretical max solar radiation <#CurrentSolarMax>
58 (field # 57) 1 Is it sunny? 1 if the sun is shining, otherwise 0 (above or below threshold) <#IsSunny>

You can follow the existing logic and add these to $SITE['cvalues'] = array( ... OR you could simply refer to the array $DATA[#field number]

So your base image ....

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if($DATA[49] == 1) {
// OR if(ret_value("named field") == 1) {
    $baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg("images/clouds_banner.jpg"); // daytime image
 } else {
     $baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg("images/clouds__night_banner.jpg"); //night-time image
}

You may need the same logic to alter text colours .....

[Mapantz]

ha!

I didn't realise that there were fields missing in the first place.

Thanks beteljuice.

[forestedge]

Returning to this again, I have been unable to change the white background on my banner to an image. Current banner is www.tottonweather.co.uk/banner.php
The Image .NFWbanner is in both jpg and png format.
Any help appreciated.

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// Output the header to let the browser know we are
// sending a graphic file format
header("Content-type: image/" . $SITE['format'] );
$im = @imagecreate($SITE['image_width'], $SITE['image_height'])
    or die("Cannot Initialize new GD image stream");
    
// Set colors we want to use...
// first background is a white background
$background_color   = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);
$black              = imagecolorallocate($im, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);
$green              = imagecolorallocate($im, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00);
$blue               = imagecolorallocate($im, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff);
$red                = imagecolorallocate($im, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00);

$baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg(".NFWbanner.jpg");
imagecopy($im,$baseimg,0,0,0,0,$SITE['image_width'], $SITE['image_height']);imagedestroy($baseimg);// Make a Border Around the box
ImageRectangle($im, 0, 0, $SITE['image_width'] -1 , 
    $SITE['image_height'] -1, $black);

[PaulMy]

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$baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg(".NFWbanner.jpg");

Could it be that the image file name has a leading dot (.)?

Your posted code looks very similar to mine other than the jpg file name

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$baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg("komokaimage1.jpg");

Enjoy,
Paul

[mcrossley]

and your background image is in the same folder as the script?

[PaulMy]

http://www.tottonweather.co.uk/.NFWbanner.jpg does not exist but http://www.tottonweather.co.uk/NFWbanner.jpg does http://www.tottonweather.co.uk/NFWbanner.jpg
so change your
$baseimg = imagecreatefromjpeg(".NFWbanner.jpg");
by removing the leading dot (.)

Enjoy,
Paul

[forestedge]

I finally managed to get most background images to work if they had a JPG suffix when jpg or png did not! The size of the image seemed irrelevant.

http://www.tottonweather.co.uk/banner.php

Could it be that the image file name has a leading dot (.)?

Removing the dot also helped thanks.