just thought i should add the source
MILDURA (working)
?php
//weather(Mildura,http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV17001.txt;
,bomonster.htm);
weather(Mildura,http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV17001.txt,;
bomonster.htm);
function weather($placename, $inputfilename, $templatefilename){
//
#
// # BOMonster 0.1
// # Author: Matthew Cook ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
// #
// # How to use:
// # $placename is the place you want to find the forecasts for
// # $inputfilename is the file you want to grab the data from
// # $templatefilename is the file you want to put the forecasts into
// # Details are in readme.txt
// #
// # Released under the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
//
#
//try to connect to target - IDV60035
if(!$fp=fopen($inputfilename ,r)) {
echo Can't Open Weather File ;
}
else {
//initalise $content variable
$content = ;
// read content
while(!feof($fp)){
$content.=fgets($fp,1024);
}
//close connection
fclose($fp);
//create new string containing data for selected place
preg_match(|$placename.*?\\n\\n.*?\\n\\n|s, $content, $temp);
//turn the first element of the temp array into a variable
$temp_content = $temp[0];
//split place_content into an array by multiple spaces and single [NL]s
$temp_array = preg_split (/[\s]{2,}|[\n]/, $temp_content);
//clean out all the Min and Max
$temp_array = str_replace(Min, , $temp_array);
$temp_array = str_replace(Max, , $temp_array);
//trim entries
for ($counter = 0; $counter = count($temp_array)-1; $counter++){
trim($temp_array[$counter]);
}
//check for today's description 80 char
if (is_numeric($temp_array[3]) == FALSE){
$temp_array[2] = $temp_array[2]. .$temp_array[3];
for ($counter = 3; $counter = count($temp_array)-2; $counter++) {
$temp_array[$counter] = $temp_array[$counter+1];
}
}
//print_r($temp_array);
//determine if it's the afternoon/evening variant or not
if (preg_match(/Tonight/, $temp_array[1])){
$arvomod = 1;
$temp_array = str_replace(Tonight and , , $temp_array);
} else {
$arvomod = 0;
}
//convert $temp_array into $place_array
$place_array[name][0] = $temp_array[0];
$place_array[name][1] = $temp_array[1];
$place_array[name][2] = $temp_array[6+$arvomod];
$place_array[name][3] = $temp_array[10+$arvomod];
$place_array[name][4] = $temp_array[14+$arvomod];
$place_array[description][1] = $temp_array[2];
$place_array[description][2] = $temp_array[7+$arvomod];
$place_array[description][3] = $temp_array[11+$arvomod];
$place_array[description][4] = $temp_array[15+$arvomod];
if ($arvomod = 1){
$place_array[min_temp][1] = $temp_array[3];
}
$place_array[min_temp][2] = $temp_array[8+$arvomod];
$place_array[min_temp][3] = $temp_array[12+$arvomod];
$place_array[min_temp][4] = $temp_array[16+$arvomod];
$place_array[max_temp][1] = $temp_array[3+$arvomod];
$place_array[max_temp][2] = $temp_array[9+$arvomod];
$place_array[max_temp][3] = $temp_array[13+$arvomod];
$place_array[max_temp][4] = $temp_array[17+$arvomod];
$place_array[precip][1] = $temp_array[5+$arvomod];
//determine the appropriate images and alt tags
for ($counter = 1; $counter = 4; $counter++){
if (stristr($place_array[description][$counter], thunderstorm)){
$place_array[image][$counter] = thunder;
$place_array[alt_tag][$counter] = Thunderstorms;
} elseif (stristr($place_array[description][$counter], shower)){
$place_array[image][$counter] = shower;
$place_array[alt_tag][$counter] = Showers;
} elseif (stristr($place_array[description][$counter], fine)){
$place_array[image][$counter] = fine;
$place_array[alt_tag][$counter] = Fine;
} else {
$place_array[image][$counter] = unknown;
$place_array[alt_tag][$counter] = Unknown;
}
}
//create short names
for ($counter = 0; $counter = 4; $counter++){
$place_array[short_name][$counter] =
substr($place_array[name][$counter], 0, 3);
}
}
//declare template
$template = ;
//open template
if(!$fp=fopen($templatefilename ,r)) {
echo Can't Open Template File ;
} else {
// read template
while(!feof($fp)){
$template.=fgets($fp,1024);
}
//close connection
fclose($fp);
//replace some strings
$patterns = array(
/(\%Name\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Description\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Min_Temp\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Max_Temp\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Precip\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Image\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Alt_Tag\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se,
/(\%Short_Name\[)(.*?)(\]\%)/se
);
$replace = array(
