Ok got you now.....I thought you were just going to have a page with some images drive from a FTP forecast i.e.
Palmerston_North|20040206|Fine. light winds.|19|11 Palmerston_North|20040207|Cloud increasing, late showers. Fresh northwesterly.|11|21 My thoughts would be to get a package that builds the web pages graphs for you out of the box. Have a look at this small home site. http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/lfduflo3/whitbyweather.htm at the bottom of the page click on the link How Does My Weather Station Work? http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/lfduflo3/WM918%20workings.htm This is the link to the software he uses by the look http://www.weather-display.com/ The only thing you need to research is can the data be easily logged to a DB for History if you require for later reference. (and build a nice web site to wrap the graphs) Looking at the software you downloaded I think your on the right track but it looks quite involved and may generate large DB files so you need to keep the cost of hosting server space in your quote. I have not set up such a site so am not going to be of much help. What I do know is NEVER TRY to write a programme to interface directly with the data loggers (rain / wind gauge) a guy I work with had a go at this spent Far too much time getting it working !! Cool project tho. Regards Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Jan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 29 May 2004 9:29 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: Weather Forecast updates to html Stephen I don't have any examples, but the client wants me to set up the website to retrieve meteorological data from a Davis Weather Monitor II, Perception, Weather Wizard or a Davis Vantage Pro Station. In order for me to view the code that will be downloaded, I will have to install, configure and build the program. I might need to have software to convert the codes into a readable page to then be inserted in the html pages. I don't want to put time into this part unless it will be worth my time and effort in order to say yes to my client. The client is out of town right now, but I will need to give him an answer in 2 days. I will need to have the code inserted into html pages to display like graphs. I have copied some examples that I will have to make the code produce and display: The client wants the website similar to the site where I have downloaded the main script for the weather program: http://meteo.othello.ch/ I have completely checked out the above site, and the website my client wants to have is going to have just as much detailed information as the above site. Jan Stephen Hutchinson wrote: > Hi Jan, can you post an example of the ftp weather text file for us to look > at? If its just a simple forecast you can easily build an ASP or PHP page > with a case statement to decide what to display in the page. > > Ie > > <% > Dim weather > > 'read the file with fso the get the txt for a key word eg weather = Fine > > Select Case weather > Case "Fine" weather = "<img src='/fine.gif'>" > Case "Hot" weather = "<img src='/Hot.gif'>" > Case "Cold" weather = "<img src='/Cold.gif'>" > End Select > > 'in the page > > Response.Write weather > > %> > > > Regards > > Stephen > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 29 May 2004 7:32 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [wdvltalk] Weather Forecast updates to html > > Hi list > > I have a client that receives codes from the weather forecast office by > ftp. Each code is assigned to a certain .gif image and text description. > Using those codes, I will need to update the HTML page with the weather > forecast. The update code can be in Perl or any other language. > > That is all the information I have right now. I have never tried > something like this before, and know that I will have to download a lot > of software (meteor script, etc.) just to be able to check it out. I > don't know if it will be easy or difficult, so I'm wondering if anyone > on this knows what will be involved and can advise if it's too much > work, or any other advice regarding this task. > > jan ____ The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. 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