brady.k — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:52:41 +0000

OK, sorry, I assumed you were using weather.com

If you mouseover (or click) the link, you see:

www.weatherforyou.com/cgi-bin/hw3/hw3.cgi?forecast=zandh&place=Charlotte&state=nc&zipcode=

Just run a php script and have "place" a variable as well as "state". Zipcode is already blank, so leave it so.

fifeclub — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 03:17:52 +0000

Eskater05 wrote: I have used it before, check the .pdf file that comes with your installation files. There is a long list of codes for the cities, and a link to where you can search a dB for a city's code (it's an xml page). You could maybe have the user put in a city, and then query this xml-interfaced dB, and return the results, inputting into a URL. See what I mean, Vern?

I'm sorry, but what I'm currently using is a copy and paste from a weather info provider. I didn't download or install anything. But if you know of a specific application that will do weather in this "remember my prefs" manner please let me know.

brady.k — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 23:50:37 +0000

I have used it before, check the .pdf file that comes with your installation files. There is a long list of codes for the cities, and a link to where you can search a dB for a city's code (it's an xml page). You could maybe have the user put in a city, and then query this xml-interfaced dB, and return the results, inputting into a URL. See what I mean, Vern?

Suzanne — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:38:08 +0000

Moving it, sir!

fifeclub — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:28:13 +0000

Well it turns out that weather.com uses an unrecognizable string in its code. The one I am using now uses city name instead of zip. But I found one that will work perfectly for me. I checked for a TOS and don't see any restrictions at all, although I will of course keep the link back to their website as this is why they are providing this free service.

Here's a code example:

<a href="http://www.addresses.com/forecast/28273.html"><img src="http://www.weatherroom.com/weather?forecast=hourly&hwvtc=000000&hwvbg=FFFFFF&pands=28273&config=png&alt=hwicc" alt="Weather for 28273 Powered by addresses.com" border="0"></a>
<br /><font size="1">Powered by <a href="http://www.addresses.com/weather.php">Addresses.com Weather </a></font>

Here's the image from the code above, and an altered one to a different zipcode, showing this concept of zip code altering should work fine.

Now I need a little help. Other than help with how to make a cookie that will store the zip code preference and then use it again next time.... can somebody help move this thread to the appropriate forum category, "Scripting"? Thanks.

Suzanne — Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:49:28 +0000

sounds like it's possible, but I wonder if it's against the TOS of the weather buttons? If not, post in Scripting and I'm sure we can work it out.