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This page was updated Sunday, 28-Feb-2010 11:36 PM

Carterlake.org scripts with a few mods...

Tom at carterlake.org has done a great job generating and freely sharing his PHP scripts for other sites to use. I started my own journey with PHP programming by using his scripts (and Larry's at Anole Computer) as learning examples, and I can't thank them enough for their sharing! With Tom's permission (and some encouragement), I've set up this page to have links to the carterlake scripts that I've modified for various puposes. Most of the mods have to do with formatting for XHTML 1.0-Strict output (even when the source page was not).

advforecast.php (NOAA Forecast for all NWS areas)

Note: as of 12-Mar-2007, the Western Region website (www.wrh.noaa.gov) now offers the point-printable forecasts in the same format as the other regional websites, so this script now works for WRH, ERH, SRH and CRH websites.

Tom's advforecast.php script takes the point-printable forecast from NOAA for Western, Eastern, Southern and Central region NOAA websites, and converts to a set of icons/conditions/temperatures and text forecast for inclusion on your webpage. My mods add XHTML 1.0-Strict output and the ability to handle a redirection for county forecasts (offered by www.crh.noaa.gov) in case a point-printable forecast is not available. See these threads for the erh2crh version (http://www.wxforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=3768, and http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,22504.0.html ) The latest version of this script also offers automatic failover to the Zone forecast if the point-printable forecast is not available. Set "$NOAAZone = 'ssZnnn';" in the code for your NOAA warning zone.

The script supports the ?force=1 parameter to reload the cache file, and also a ?force=2 to load the cache file from the backup County Zone forecast.

To use, you'll need Tom's icon set uploaded in the /forecast/images directory on your website, and to set the $fileName variable inside the script to the URL for the point-printable forecast.

With V2.06 and up, the new parsing of the failover Zone forecast requires additional icons (available below) to be placed on your website.

Sample included with:

will show

National Weather Service Forecast for: Saratoga CA Issued by: National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, CA

Updated: 3:48 pm PDT Sep 7, 2010

Overnight Mostly Cloudy Wednesday Mostly Cloudy Wednesday Night Mostly Cloudy Thursday Becoming Sunny Thursday Night Partly Cloudy Friday Sunny Friday Night Partly Cloudy Saturday Mostly Sunny Saturday Night Partly Cloudy Lo 56 °F Hi 67 °F Lo 54 °F Hi 73 °F Lo 53 °F Hi 80 °F Lo 53 °F Hi 81 °F Lo 53 °F

 

Overnight	Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Calm wind.
Wednesday	Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. Calm wind becoming west between 10 and 13 mph.
Wednesday Night	Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. West northwest wind between 5 and 14 mph.
Thursday	Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 73. West wind between 3 and 6 mph.
Thursday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 53. Northwest wind between 3 and 9 mph.
Friday	Sunny, with a high near 80.
Friday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 53.
Saturday	Mostly sunny, with a high near 81.
Saturday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 53.
Sunday	Mostly sunny, with a high near 82.
Sunday Night	Mostly clear, with a low around 54.
Monday	Sunny, with a high near 81.
Monday Night	Mostly clear, with a low around 54.
Tuesday	Sunny, with a high near 81.

 

Forecast from NOAA-NWS for Saratoga CA.

You can also include it 'silently' and print just a few (or all) the contents where you'd like it on the page

then on your page, the following code would display just the current and next time period forecast:

Overnight Mostly Cloudy	Wednesday Mostly Cloudy
Lo 56 °F	Hi 67 °F

Or if you'd like to include the immediate forecast with text for the next two cycles:

Overnight Mostly Cloudy Lo 56 °F	Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Calm wind.
Wednesday Mostly Cloudy Hi 67 °F	Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. Calm wind becoming west between 10 and 13 mph.

Download: advforecast2.php (V2.15 - 28-Feb-2010)
Download: Icon Set (upload to your website in the /forecast/images directory)
Download additonal icon set (upload to your website in /forecast/images directory) [required with V2.06+]

advisory.php (NOAA Advisory/Warning script)

This is a small mod to Tom's advisory script to eliminate some strange characters that began appearing just before the first line of the script output. This script is meant to be included in a webpage, not run as a separate page. (See the discussion at http://www.wxforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=539

Download: testadvisory.php