plugin request- Weather Plugin...

You could probably create a new member profile field to hold the location code. Then just populate the location in the weather plugin with that member’s code.

I think you’ll need 1.1 for this so that you can 1) grab the custom profile field info anywhere and 2) nest that inside the weather Plugin. If might look something like:

{exp:world_weather:current
  station="{exp:member:custom_profile_data}{weather}{/exp:member:custom_profile_data}"
  cache_refresh="300"}

Thanks for the suggestion Chris.

Your solution seems to require human intervention to find and input the location code into the database.

The ideal situation would be to have the member/user choose their location and then store the location code in the member DB. I guess that the plug-in would need to do a lookup on the weather location code base – but I’d not sure if a plug-in can perform this type of operation. What do you think?

Plugins typically don’t interact with the database beyond simply pulling information out in order to display.

I’m not sure how you’re envisioning the user being able to “choose their location”. I really don’t see anything wrong with telling a user “if you want to have local weather info displayed, then go here, find your local source, and put the code into this field.”

>I really don’t see anything wrong with telling a user…

Neither do I but my “the computer should do that…” side of me thinks that it would be nice to ask them for their zipcode and have the weather_location code automatically entered. :}

I haven’t looked into doing look ups using zipcodes, but I can do something similar to noaa.gov’s site. It would have to be as a module though.

too bad that the noaa.gov site doesn’t provide a link to a nice looking weather picture - is there a work around?

very nice weather module to be seen at: http://www.gizgo.com/weather.php

redo, Two things:

1) I couldn’t quite get it to work. Here’s what I’m using:

<code> <h2 class=”sidetitle”>Your Local Weather</h2>

{exp:world_weather:current station="{exp:member:custom_profile_data}{weather}{/exp:member:custom_profile_data}” cache_refresh=”300”} Temperature: {temperature_f}°F<br /> Feels Like: {feels_like_f}°F<br /> Humidity: {humidity}%<br /> Conditions: {condition}<br /> Wind: from the {wind_direction} at {wind_speed_mph} mph<br> Last Updated: {last_update format="%m/%d/%Y %g:%i %a"}<br> {/exp:world_weather:current} </code>

I created a “Custom Profile Field” called weather, and calling that info up didn’t quite work. Field info:

type: text input format: none field width: 15px max length: 4 rows: 1

2) Is there anyway to output the real name of the City / State where the weather stats are coming from? It would be nice to have it say, “The weather in Omaha, NE”….

Any help / thoughts we be appreciated.

If I just place

<code> {exp:member:custom_profile_data}{weather}{/exp:member:custom_profile_data} </code>

somewhere in my page, it does display the right 4 char code, so I know the data is there and is being returned correctly.

You plugin does seem to work fine, I’m just having trouble getting it to be “location” specific based off of the custom_profile_field.

redo,

Any thoughts on this?

City / State is possible but not with a plugin being that It’d need access to the database.

As far as the custom profile goes, I’ll check it out later on today to see if I can get it to work.

Any chance to take a look at this?

The wind is coming in from the calm at 0 mph

Hmmm, interesting report from Sue’s site 😊