Re: Need some help please.

With my limited knowledge (i.e none, lol) i was wondering if you are able to give me the code you use to do it. i will then play around with it t get Canberra, is that ok? doesn't matter if not. -- 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:009901c25fa1$ba8fb9f0$3f0a0a0a@skink... > > > Thats a Nice feaure you have, How do you do that? > > I have a cron event on my server that grabs the relevant page from the > web site soon after it is updated (around 20 past each hour) using "lynx > -dump url" which then pipes the resulting page dump through grep to grab > just the line of data that includes my town and dumps that output to a > file. > > The file contains a single line of data that includes all of the > information I display plus some other stuff on the page that I don't > use. > > Within my php page I open that small file and load it into an array for > display on the page. > > Obviously there's some error checking in there for various fail > conditions and some other stuff too but that's the basics of it. > > I've looked at doing something similar for forecasts but as I don't > (yet) have a need to display them I haven't got around to it. > > The main advantage of this method is that you're not grabbing the data > on every page load but, instead, only when the data on the source web > site can reasonably be expected to have changed. > > <delurk>As well as running a business with my wife I work for the BoM > and have done for about 18 years now</delurk> > > CYA, Dave > > >