"Keith Tallent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <INTRO> > I was surfing the web the other day looking for any useful PHP progs and I > stumbled upon phpweather! > Now being a UK Pilot, "thats useful" I thought, I downloaded it and tried it > out...superb! > A few tweaks here and there and the pretty_print function will decode Metars > exactly as we pilots would like to read them. > A day or so later I visited www.gimpster.com and shock horror beta version > 1.9.3 was announced better have a look at that.. > ARRGGGHHH it's gone all object orientated on me, but despite being a hole > bunch harder to read now, I am finally coming to grips with it again. I hope you wasn't too scared by the new version :-) And beware: it's not stable yet. I think there's still some things that need to be changed. For example: locale_common.php shouldn't contain the code for all the different output-functions. That code should be in seperate files, and then locale_common.php could include the files. We could place the output-functions in a directory called output/ or something like that. > <TWEAKS> > I have had a play with both the "local_common.php" and "local_en.php" files > to correct a couple of things and to add some things that we pilots would > like to see. > For example in "pretty_print" you don't display the wind speed in knots (we > pilots like that) so I have added it, also I have reformated the output so > the sentenced are broken up, it just makes it a bit more readable. That's great! Now that I think about it: should we extend pref_units() so that one can choose between 'metric', 'imperial', and 'aviation'? > <IMPROVEMENTS> > Now one thing that I would like to see done is for phpweather to also report > the temporarily expected changes instead of just dropping them. e.g. > TEMPO -SHRA SCT018 indicates temporarily rain showers with scattered clouds > at 1800 feet can be expected - > also decode: > BECMG (becoming) > NOSIG (no significant change) > ///// (rain) > > I believe thats nothing that the code can't decode already apart from the > prefix (TEMPO, BECMG, NOSIG, ///// etc) so why not decode and add it as a > comment at the end of the report. That would be cool - I just put them into the remarks part, because I didn't want to deal with them at that time. > <BUGS!> > Another possible bug is that if you incorrectly specify > $properties['station'], instead of reporting the old "no data" string you > get a hole host of syntax errors. > Also one things I found out under the old version was that if the code could > not get through to the METAR download site (i.e. it was down) it would > update the database with an empty metar entry, surely it would be better to > use the out of date information cached in the database (ok so it's old but > better displying that than nothing), and don't over write a good metar entry > with a blank metar. Ups - that's not the intention. As you, we shouldn't overwrite a good metar entyr with a blank metar... > If you would like to see the changes I have made to the two files > mentioned above I will send them on to you. Or even better yet: if you send me a sourceforge-login, you can update the files yourself in CVS. If any of you have found some missing strings in phpweather, then please either send me a sourceforge-login so that I can give you write-access to CVS, or send me a patch. > Congrats on a great piece of code - the documentation now looks > twice the size of the code! Very funny ;-) I like these doc-comments, and it appears that they will be the standard in PEAR (source-code repository in PHP4), so you better get used to it :-) > regards > Keith Tallent > > > > -- Best regards, Martin Geisler Checkout http://www.gimpster.com for: PHP Weather => Shows the current weather on your webpages. PHP Shell => A telnet-connection (almost :-) in a PHP page. _______________________________________________ PHPWeather-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpweather-devel
