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This page was updated Saturday, 28-Jan-2012 11:10 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 an 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: 1:47 pm PST Feb 3, 2012

- Select Forecast - Saratoga Los Gatos Cupertino Sunnyvale Santa Clara San Jose Mountain View Santa Cruz San Francisco

Saratoga

Tonight Mostly Clear Saturday Sunny Saturday Night Partly Cloudy Sunday Mostly Sunny Sunday Night Partly Cloudy Monday Partly Sunny Monday Night Rain Likely Tuesday Rain Likely Tuesday Night Chance Rain Lo 38 °F Hi 65 °F Lo 39 °F Hi 66 °F Lo 39 °F Hi 62 °F Lo 43 °F Hi 59 °F Lo 39 °F

 

Tonight	Mostly clear, with a low around 38. South southwest wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm.
Saturday	Sunny, with a high near 65. Light and variable wind.
Saturday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm.
Sunday	Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. East southeast wind between 3 and 5 mph.
Sunday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 39. Light east wind.
Monday	Partly sunny, with a high near 62.
Monday Night	Rain likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Tuesday	Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 59.
Tuesday Night	A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39.
Wednesday	Mostly sunny, with a high near 62.
Wednesday Night	Mostly clear, with a low around 37.
Thursday	Sunny, with a high near 65.
Thursday Night	Mostly clear, with a low around 37.
Friday	Mostly sunny, with a high near 64.

 

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:

Tonight Mostly Clear	Saturday Sunny
Lo 38 °F	Hi 65 °F

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

Tonight Mostly Clear Lo 38 °F	Mostly clear, with a low around 38. South southwest wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm.
Saturday Sunny Hi 65 °F	Sunny, with a high near 65. Light and variable wind.

Download: advforecast2.php (V3.02 - 05-Oct-2011) (Special thanks to Curly from RicksTurf.com for the multi-zone forecast code!)
Download: Icon Set (upload to your website in the /forecast/images directory)

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