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wp-weather

Latest version: 0.3.8
Please update to the latest version. I apologize for the rash of updates, but this version should fix all issues while allowing multiple forecasts to be used. Hopefully this will be the final update for quite some time.

Download link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-weather/

I have been using weather.com’s XML web service to display local weather information on my family website for several years. I decided to make the PHP code into a widget for wordpress. Here’s where you sign up for their service: http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html

This widget uses a database table to cache the data for a half hour to avoid hammering the web service. Additionally, if you are using the wp-cache plugin, any changes to the options clear the cache.

To install: upload to your plugin directory, activate the plugin, set the options and add the widget to your sidebar. Your location ID is a zip code for US and an alphanumeric code for international. Take Dublin for example – when searching for Dublin on weather.com you are taken to the following page: http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Dublin+Ireland+EIXX0014 and EIXX0014 is the location code.

Additionally, you may use a shortcode on any post or page.
[weather_display]
If you want to show different cities on different pages/posts you can specify a location id:
[weather_display location_id="75034"]
If you’d like to display more days than default (what you set in the plugin options page):
[weather_display forecast_length=5]

weather.com has made changes to their servers which now REQUIRE you to enter a partner id and license key in this plugin’s settings. If you do not, they will not send the complete forecast data which in turn will break this plugin.

Preview:

221 responses to “wp-weather”

  1. Paul
    Paul
    June 19, 2007 at 12:41 pm |

    Hi Matt,

    Quick question on a problem I am experiencing. (WP 2.2, PHP 5.2.2, and an older hacked template that I have brought up to widget capable code (per the WP guys instructions and code). Here’s the error I get:

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@sundoggy.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    If you have any ideas, I’d appreciate it. It looks great, and I hope to try it out soon.

    Thanks,

    Paul

  2. yabbox
    yabbox
    June 19, 2007 at 9:24 pm |

    I understand. Thanks for the reply.

    Unfortunately I received a similar reply from hostexcellence.com/ so it looks like I need to look for an alternative. Any ideas?

    “I’m sorry, it is impossible to make an upgrade of PHP version on our servers at the moment. I regret.
    We do not at this current time have any ETA for PHP5. We do appreciate your interest, and your patience in this situation. We will inform all current customers at such time as we do begin to offer PHP5.”

    Regards,
    Andy

    ________________________________________
    Unfortunately I do not have a solution for PHP

  3. Rolando
    Rolando
    July 25, 2007 at 5:12 pm |

    Thanks for this cool plugin!

  4. Mitchell
    Mitchell
    August 1, 2007 at 9:45 am |

    I am having a problem with WP-Weather Manager. When I filled the partner id and license key along with zip code and then save the values and got an error stating:

    WordPress database error: [Table 'campmark_wp_2.wp_weatherxml' doesn't exit]
    TRUNCATE TABLE wp_weather xml

    What does that mean? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks.

  5. andy
    andy
    August 6, 2007 at 2:38 am |

    I have set up this plugin on one site, thanks very much for making it php4 compatible.

    But I get the same error as Mitchell on another of my sites. I see that he has fixed the problem.

    Any advice?

  6. Matt Brotherson
    Matt Brotherson
    August 6, 2007 at 9:03 am |

    Andy, your wordpress version might not have the required dbDelta function. If you can log into your phpmyadmin and execute this sql, you should be set.

    CREATE TABLE wp_weatherxml (
		  xml_url varchar(150) NOT NULL default '',
		  xml_data text NOT NULL,
		  last_updated datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
		  KEY xml_url (xml_url)
		) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
  7. andy
    andy
    August 6, 2007 at 8:24 pm |

    thanks again Matt. I got it working by adding the following SQL (excluding line 6).

    CREATE TABLE wp_weatherxml(
    xml_url varchar( 150 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT ”,
    xml_data text NOT NULL ,
    last_updated datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
    KEY xml_url( xml_url )
    )

  8. daniel
    daniel
    August 7, 2007 at 11:59 pm |

    hi,

    is there a way to display international locations. weather.com accepts city, country.

    also is there a way to change the units say to metric.

    daniel

  9. Matt Brotherson
    Matt Brotherson
    August 8, 2007 at 10:23 am |

    Daniel,

    I’ve updated this plugin to support metric units. Overwrite the old files with the version above and go to the options page for the plugin. Select metric for the units and save.

    I do believe you can put any location code in the options page and have it display appropriately.

    Cheers.

  10. buffawhat
    buffawhat
    August 10, 2007 at 8:40 am |

    I’m trying to get this plugin working on a WPMU home page. I get the 500 server error when I try to put the tag in.. even as a widget on a widget theme i get the error..

    any ideas?
    runing MU 1.2.3 on dreamhost with php 5.2.2

  11. piecealava
    piecealava
    August 10, 2007 at 11:09 am |

    I’m able to activate the plugin, but when i click the link to configure i get the following error:

    Cannot load wp_weather/wp_weather.php.

    what did i miss?

  12. DesiTech
    DesiTech
    August 20, 2007 at 10:43 am |

    hi,

    I’m using wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 and when I tried your widget I get this error:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /homepages/36/d162900626/htdocs/blogs/wp-content/plugins/wp-weather.php on line 313

    And line 313 code is this:
    $day = $day_attributes['t'];

    can you please look into it.

    thx,
    DesiTech

  13. Matt Brotherson
    Matt Brotherson
    August 22, 2007 at 10:00 am |

    I haven’t used WPMU for any testing. Which version of wp-weather are you using as my line numbers aren’t matching yours.

  14. DesiTech
    DesiTech
    August 27, 2007 at 9:05 am |

    I’m using Version: 0.2.1

  15. Richard Brown
    Richard Brown
    September 13, 2007 at 9:13 am |

    Unfortunately I will have to decativate the plugin because I can’t get it working without widget support – a shame.

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