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Just install and activate.
You have to register at World Weather Online
You can find there icons in worldweather directory with 25px icons.
Use weather_sprite.css and weather-sprite.png in your layout, adapt it to your needs.
You can find a list of weather codes and the names of the icons here
For city code look here
Please note, that you have to use a caching plugin like aks_cache, to stay within the limit of 500 requests per hour!
a second variant is to use the external version with cron or aks_cron
Example use:
<txp:weather names="Town_1,City_2" codes="town1,city2" key="your_key" />
Parameters:
names: name of the city/town how you want to see it on your site, not obligatory, if not declared location code (see next line) is used
codes: location code of the city/town on worldweatheronline.com The number of city codes has to be equal to the number of names of these locations!
key: the API-key you got, after registering on worldweatheronline.com
image: wether to show icons or not (“1” or “0”), default is “1”
sprite_image: wether to use css_sprite file on your server (“1”) or to retrieve the icons from worldweatheronline (“0”), default is “1”
wind_unit: show wind speed in km/h or mph, choose between “k” or “m”, default is “k”
temperature_unit: use Fahrenheit or Celsius scale, “C” or “F”, default is “C”
class: table class, default is “weather”
row_class: row class, default is “weather-row”
place_class: td class for the city, default is “weather”
temperature_class: td class for the temperature, default is “weather”
icon_class: td class for the icons or the sprite_image, default is “weather”
language: what language to use for title texts? default is English “en” other language codes you can find here
wait: time to wait between requests for different cities in micro seconds (one millionth of a second). Default is 500000 micro seconds.
In source directory you can also find a php file named wcz_weather_extern.php. Edit it to your needs with upper listed parameters parameters. Pay attention to the path for the ready html file.
In textpattern place something like that: <txp:php>$weather = file_get_contents('textpattern/tmp/weather.html');echo($weather);</txp:php>
Then you have to configure a cron job in this manner:
5 3,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/your_site/wcz_weather.php
or install aks_cron and place your command line there.
this plugin uses most of the code from snt_weather plugin by Simon Lindley http://www.simonaut.com/
- 0.5.1 – bugfixes, changed api-server
- 0.5.0 – new parameters, code cleaning, parameter “names” is not obligatory, different language strings
- 0.4.0 – changed to worldweatheronline api
- 0.3.2 – error handling
- 0.3.1 – Update 08/07/2009 API-Update
- 0.3 – enhanced
- 0.2 – 11/06/2005
Released under the General Public License 2.0
The Iconset has another license! Look here