They're free, but use at your own risk

The scripts in PHP and Perl referenced here are used in the operation of this weather station, and may be freely copied and used to support your station. Please note that you use these scripts at your own risk. No warranty is expressed or implied. I accept no liability for any damages that may ensue from their use.
You will need to configure them for your own particular station website.
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A Version History is available -- check back from time to time to see if there are updates to scripts you have downloaded earlier. Announcements of version updates and new scripts are made on WXForum.net , Weather-Watch, Ambient and Weather-Matrix forums as they become available.

This page was updated Tuesday, 01-Jan-2008 10:28 AM

PHP Scripts (run on webserver)

These scripts have run on PHP 4.1.2, and PHP 4.4.1. I don't have access to PHP 3.x, so it is not known if they will work on versions below PHP 4.1.2. If you try them and they work (or not) on earlier versions of PHP, please send me a message at webmaster[at]saratoga-weather.org and let me know the results.

Display .TXT NOAA style forecasts PHP

I needed to safely display a series of .TXT files (NOAA style climate reports) using the overall style of the website. My WeatherLink software produces regular reports (NOAAMO.TXT, NOAAPRMO.TXT, NOAAYR.TXT, NOAAPRYR.TXT) as part of the 5-minute update. I've also produced reports and named them NOAAyyyy.TXT for yearly reports and NOAAyyyy-mm.TXT for monthly reports. These I've uploaded (monthly) to a sub-directory on the website /NOAA-reports.

Version 1.04 (01-Dec-2007) adds a new feature for WeatherLink users to create new NOAAyyyy-mm.TXT and NOAAyyyy.TXT files from the respective NOAAPRMO.TXT and NOAAPRYR.TXT files when the month/year rolls over. It will copy the appropriate file to the $NOAAdir and name it so you have no monthly maintenance to do (except to view the NOAA reports page on the first of each month).

The NOAA-reports.php will read the sub-directory, sort the filenames produce a menu of available names, and display the file requested. It automatically uses NOAAMO.TXT and NOAAYR.TXT (WeatherLink version) for the current monthly and current yearly files. The nice thing about the script is it strictly controls what can be displayed (existing files only, no directory browsing). The following is a live display of WeatherLink produced NOAA style reports for this station.

2008: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec 
2007: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec 
2006: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec 
2005: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec 
2004: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec 

Report for 2008 07


                   MONTHLY CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY for JUL. 2008

NAME: KCASARAT1   CITY: Saratoga   STATE: CA 
ELEV:   375 ft  LAT:  37° 16' 28" N  LONG: 122° 01' 23" W

                   TEMPERATURE (°F), RAIN  (in), WIND SPEED (mph)

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    MEAN                              DEG   DEG         WIND                 DOM
DAY TEMP  HIGH   TIME   LOW    TIME   DAYS  DAYS  RAIN  SPEED HIGH   TIME    DIR
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 1  63.5  76.7   4:05p  57.0  11:50p   3.8   2.4  0.00   1.1  11.0   2:25p     N
 2  65.6  78.1   2:05p  53.2   2:40a   3.8   4.5  0.00   1.2  14.0   3:15p    NW
 3  69.4  84.1   2:05p  55.6   5:45a   2.3   6.7  0.00   1.6  14.0   3:50p     N
 4  66.3  77.0   3:40p  57.0   6:05a   2.2   3.5  0.00   1.6  14.0   4:55p   NNE
 5  64.0  83.2   1:10p  54.8   6:15a   2.4   1.9  0.00   0.6  10.0  12:00p   NNE
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    65.8  84.1     3    53.2     2    14.5  19.0  0.00   1.2  14.0     2       N

Max >=  90.0:  0
Max <=  32.0:  0
Min <=  32.0:  0
Min <=   0.0:  0
Max Rain: 0.00 ON 07/01/08
Days of Rain: 0 (>.01 in) 0 (>.1 in) 0 (>1 in)
Heat Base:  65.0  Cool Base:  65.0  Method: Integration

Downloads .. please customize for your directory and file naming convention ( WL or VWS).
Download WeatherLink/ VWS version (V1.05 - 01-Jan-2008) [ see version history ]