Re: Package proposal Science_Weather

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Stephan Schmidt wrote: > Basically I like the class very much, but I'd like to see it renamed to > Science_Weather_WetterDotCom. > I don't think that it's useful to go and create a unified interface for all > services that are available, as they probably won't be interchangeable. I > guess different services will provide different information and so using a > distinct name for the class should be enough... I'm at work right now :) tuupola from pear@efnet convinced me to use a factoring framework and right now we have Weather.php |--|--Common.php |--Metar.php |--WeatherDotCom.php Code is working like $weatherDotCom = &Science_Weather::service("WeatherDotCom"); $weatherDotCom->searchLocation("foobar"); ... you get the idea... The interchangeability stops there, where a certain service is not providing a special datafield, so METAR won't have a forecast for example, but the API for getting the data is the same. > If the name is changed, I'm +1 for this package, Coding style is great, PEAR > dependency could be removed... done. The code is already working, I tested them with two example-scripts and I get the same result like before the rewrite, so maybe I can give you an overview in a few hours. Regards, Alexander