I combined it with some ideas in an article from Simon Moss over at PHPBuilder on GIS locating with PHP and GD.

Now my web site displays a cute word map showing my location and the day/night terminator and my sunrise/sunset for today:
http://ffaat.pointclark.net/blog/

Couple of things for you:

The class provides function to set the variables, so rather than your code (eg sunstatus->lat=47) you should just call:
$sunstatus->setCoords(47,-122);

(there is error checking in the Set calls). The same for Timezone. Also for the date, use the following instead of your three lines:
$sunstatus->setDate(date(‘Y’),date(‘m’),date(‘j’));

Lastly, there is a bug in the class (I have emailed the author). On line 160 $R is used:
$S = $R – sin($Q) * sin($E);

This needs to be defined just before use, like so:
$R = $this->R;
$S = $R – sin($Q) * sin($E);

Otherwise the Radius corrections are not applied.

Again – Thanks! Love the writing.

Oh, and the validator for the Email Address field is broken. It rejected my perfectly valid address. Hint: just about anything goes before @. This is an example of a syntactically valid address
“Jack & Jill + their son”@example.com

I avoided having cron call PHP by just using wget, eg:

wget –output-document=/home/me/public_html/weather.rss ‘http://rssweather.com/rss.php?…’

The single quotes are necessary for the ampersands to get parsed correctly.

“,$CONTENTS); $ARRAY2 = explode(“

Any ideas why? I am using “http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/KTHV.rss” which is my local airport.

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q “,$CONTENTS); $ARRAY2 = explode(“

Just one problem: The sunset/sunrise seems to be off by an hour at night. It was reading out 18:13 when in fact it should have said 19:13 for where I’m at lon/lat? I don’t know; looking at the script, it seems to run off the date/timestamp, but I haven’t quite gotten it figured out yet what I can do. Is this an issue with the daylight savings in my area?

Very nice, though! :D

http://forecastfox.accuweather.com/adcbin/forecastfox/weather_data.asp?location=EUR|UK|UK001|LONDON|&metric=1

This is a link to the London, England XML file; this information is updated once every two minutes, I believe. You can pull this and transform it into an array and then traverse the array to get the information that you’re looking for.

To get the code for your area, visit:

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/index-world.asp

and plug in your town/city, and then use the zipcode from the query string, replacing ‘location=EUR|UK|UK001|LONDON|’ in the link above with ‘location=NEW_LOCATION|INFORMATION|QUERY|TEXT’.

Hope that Helps!
jd

While I was attempting to calm myself down from the denial I received from my past ISSN application, I ended up coming across Mike Davidson and his blog. And well, wouldn’t you know, but Mike has setup a PHP script which allows one to display a fairl…

Davidson’s weather: Mike Davidson writes of how he had to interpret and improve the raw info given in a weather web service. On one level it’s a story about a particular operation, but on another level it’s a story about…

thanks,
jD

Is there an example/demo for the weather module?

I’ll try it out anyway, probably.

Thanks again.

If you’d like to see an implementation of the weather and sunrise class, I’ve used it here:

http://web2.unt.edu/riskman/index.php?section=index

I modified the weather data to use the XML feed instead, since I found it had much more information contained within it than the RSS feed. I started putting together a small file to author the string data and save it to a flat file, but I haven’t been able to finish it with so many other projects out there. My mockup is located here:

http://www.mulkeymason.com/communication/setweather.html

It’s about half-finished, though, and doesn’t work at all in Internet Explorer.

Thanks again.