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This page was updated Friday, 23-Nov-2012 1:23 PM

Carterlake.org scripts with a few mods...

Tom at carterlake.org has done a great job generating and freely sharing his PHP scripts for other sites to use. I started my own journey with PHP programming by using his scripts (and Larry's at Anole Computer) as learning examples, and I can't thank them enough for their sharing! With Tom's permission (and some encouragement), I've set up this page to have links to the carterlake scripts that I've modified for various puposes. Most of the mods have to do with formatting for XHTML 1.0-Strict output (even when the source page was not).

advforecast.php (NOAA Forecast for all NWS areas)

Note: as of 12-Mar-2007, the Western Region website (www.wrh.noaa.gov) now offers the point-printable forecasts in the same format as the other regional websites, so this script now works for WRH, ERH, SRH and CRH websites.

Tom's advforecast.php script takes the point-printable forecast from NOAA for Western, Eastern, Southern and Central region NOAA websites, and converts to a set of icons/conditions/temperatures and text forecast for inclusion on your webpage. My mods add XHTML 1.0-Strict output and the ability to handle a redirection for county forecasts (offered by www.crh.noaa.gov) in case a point-printable forecast is not available. See these threads for the erh2crh version (http://www.wxforum.net/viewtopic.php?p=3768, and http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,22504.0.html ) The latest version of this script also offers automatic failover to the Zone forecast if the point-printable forecast is not available. Set "$NOAAZone = 'ssZnnn';" in the code for your NOAA warning zone.

The script supports the ?force=1 parameter to reload the cache file, and also a ?force=2 to load the cache file from the backup County Zone forecast.

To use, you'll need an icon set uploaded in the /forecast/images directory on your website, and to set the $fileName variable inside the script to the URL for the point-printable forecast.

With V2.06 and up, the new parsing of the failover Zone forecast requires additional icons (available below) to be placed on your website.

Sample included with:

will show

National Weather Service Forecast for: Saratoga CA Issued by: National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, CA

Updated: 9:06 am PDT May 22, 2013

- Select Forecast - Saratoga Los Gatos Cupertino Sunnyvale Santa Clara San Jose Mountain View Santa Cruz San Francisco

Saratoga

Tonight Mostly Clear Thursday Sunny Thursday Night Partly Cloudy Friday Sunny Friday Night Mostly Clear Saturday Sunny Saturday Night Partly Cloudy Sunday Partly Sunny Sunday Night Mostly Cloudy Lo 49 °F Hi 71 °F Lo 50 °F Hi 73 °F Lo 50 °F Hi 76 °F Lo 51 °F Hi 77 °F Lo 51 °F

 

Tonight	Mostly clear, with a low around 49. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday	Sunny, with a high near 71. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Thursday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 50. Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph.
Friday	Sunny, with a high near 73. West northwest wind 7 to 11 mph.
Friday Night	Mostly clear, with a low around 50. Northwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming light in the evening.
Saturday	Sunny, with a high near 76.
Saturday Night	Partly cloudy, with a low around 51.
Sunday	Partly sunny, with a high near 77.
Sunday Night	Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51.
Memorial Day	Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.
Monday Night	A slight chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 51.
Tuesday	A slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 79.
Tuesday Night	A slight chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52.
Wednesday	A slight chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.

 

Forecast from NOAA-NWS for Saratoga CA.

You can also include it 'silently' and print just a few (or all) the contents where you'd like it on the page

then on your page, the following code would display just the current and next time period forecast:

Tonight Mostly Clear	Thursday Sunny
Lo 49 °F	Hi 71 °F

Or if you'd like to include the immediate forecast with text for the next two cycles:

Tonight Mostly Clear Lo 49 °F	Mostly clear, with a low around 49. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Sunny Hi 71 °F	Sunny, with a high near 71. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.

Download: advforecast2.php (V3.08 - 23-Nov-2012) (Special thanks to Curly from RicksTurf.com for the multi-zone forecast code!)
Download: Icon Set (upload to your website in the /forecast/images directory)

advisory.php (NOAA Advisory/Warning script)

This is a small mod to Tom's advisory script to eliminate some strange characters that began appearing just before the first line of the script output. This script is meant to be included in a webpage, not run as a separate page. (See the discussion at http://www.wxforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=539

Download: testadvisory.php