README for PHP Weather 2.2.2 2004-06-17 -*- text -*- Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Martin Geisler <gimpster@gimpster.com> Licensed under the GNU GPL. See the file COPYING for details.
What is PHP Weather?
PHP Weather is a script that makes it easy to show the current weather on your webpage. Airports all over the world make a so-called METAR report once an hour. A METAR report is an aviation weather report to be used primarily by airplanes. The report contains data, in a shorthand form, about temperature, wind speed and direction, cloud-coverage and much more. PHP Weather converts this format into both imperial and metric units, caches the data in MySQL, Postgres or DBM database for fast retrieval, and makes them easily available in PHP scripts.
Installation
See the INSTALL file for instructions on installation of PHP Weather on your webserver.
Features
Here is a list of the features PHP Weather provides:
- Shows the current weather in natural language.
- Caches the result to increase performance.
- MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DBM databases are supported.
- Supports several languages. If your language isn't here, you can add a translation.
Please see http://www.phpweather.net/ for full details and examples.
How to contact us
If you find a bug or have a feature request for PHP Weather, please don't hesitate to report it at SourceForge using one of the available trackers:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23245
We have a mailing list for general discussions about PHP Weather, where you can ask questions and talk about anything with relation to PHP Weather. Before you can send mails to the list, you have to subscribe to it --- go to this page to subscribe:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpweather-devel
If PHP Weather is decoding a METAR incorrectly, please remember to include that METAR you're having problems with when you send a message or submit a bug. Without it, we can't really help you. You'll find the METAR below the report on index.php.
You can always get the newest version at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23245
and you'll find additionally information at
Enjoy! --- Martin Geisler <gimpster@gimpster.com>