Re: Need some help please.

Thats a Nice feaure you have, How do you do that? I have spoken to guy who made the php file and he will look into the bugs for me, also i will keep playing around with it. -- Cheers --------------------------------------------------------- Simon Angell Canberra ACT www.canberra-wx.com --------------------------------------------------------- Member of: Australian Severe Weather Association. www.severeweather.asn.au --------------------------------------------------------- This email is virus free. Scanned before leaving my mailbox using Norton Antivirus 2002 for Win2k Scanned with the latest definition File. "David Freeman" <dfreeman@outbackqld.net.au> wrote in message news:005101c25f70$4f197700$3f0a0a0a@skink... > > > I am having trouble with a PHP script. I am not the one who > > made this and my knowledge on php is very little. > > I came across this php script > > www.canberra-wx.com/bomonster/bomonster01.php > > Tried loading this and had too many page errors to figure out what you > are doing. > > > www.canberra-wx.com/bomonster/bomonster1.php > > Ditto for this one. > > > Any help on how to get it to work would be great. > > First comment is a conceptual one rather than a programming one. > > I presume you are doing this so that every time someone loads your page > they get current information? You do know that the BoM only updates > forecasts around three to four times per day don't you? In this case it > means that every hit on your page is reloading what is, largely, static > information. You would be far better off caching the raw data on your > own server and using it from there. > > Use cron and possibly lynx to grab the raw data that you need on an > appropriate schedule (say every six hours or, alternately, around an > hour after normal release time for each forecast) and either process it > straight away to produce the display information you need or store it > locally to be processed each time the page loads. Ideally, you'd create > a static version of the page each time you grab new forecast information > and just display it. > > Once you have the data on your server you can process it accordingly > which is where the php comes in. The major hurdle is in pattern > matching and the like to find the relevant bit. > > I am currently doing something moderately similar to this on > www.outbackqld.net.au (current conditions in top right corner) and it is > working just fine with an update every hour or so being cached locally. > > I'm happy to discuss the issues of doing this further but am not > actually using php for anything but the last step - the rest of the > solution is done using a combination of cron, lynx and grep. > > CYA, Dave > > >