Re: Weather Scripts

On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 08:13 PM, Shannon Doyle wrote:

Hi People, I have been looking around the web lately and have noted a number of sites are running what appears to be php scripts that parse their local weather information and display it on their wesite. Well, I want to do the same, however I have been searching and found nothing that does what I want it to do. The only ones that I can find are either the output style of weather.com (ie all or nothing) or use their own graphics etc to display the data. All I want to be able to do is give the current conditions (ie partly cloudy) and the current temperature. I haven't decided if I then want to use this info to create an image or if I will display it as straight text.

This is the beauty of XML... It's usually done using something called XML-RPC. There's a nice O'Reilly introduction to the topic, at xml.com, and I'm sure that after reading this you'll be better-prepared to search for scripts that do this for you. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/08/rpc/ Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com