vBWeather Coming Soon

Code Monkey · 07-19-2006, 12:11 AM

What do you mean by data?

Your weather data or when you change it in the form?

Eric · 07-19-2006, 12:20 AM

I still see the daa from yesterday morning, as if the feed did not update

Eric · 07-19-2006, 12:46 AM

here's a screenshot of what I actually see, we are 19 th 9.46 am when I post this

Code Monkey · 07-19-2006, 07:33 AM

Weird, I will have to look into that tonight.

Eric · 07-19-2006, 01:19 PM

for your info

it is now 10 pm and home on nix and FF and cleaned cache , still the same info from yesterday morning, so it is not IE or windows or....

Code Monkey · 07-19-2006, 07:05 PM

It has nothing to do with you. The updates are done by cron. Obviously something went screwy writing the mod on my 3.6 test forum and transefering it to this 3.54 site.

I'll get it worked out.

Code Monkey · 07-19-2006, 07:47 PM

Ok I figured it out, but it is a weird database quirk. Because it worked fine on the test server which uses the exact same database. Who knows. Anyway, it should be good now.

Eric · 07-19-2006, 11:25 PM

indeed it is updating again... and crons can be weirdo's by moments

Eric · 07-19-2006, 11:26 PM

it would be nice if someone else tests too now... seems I'm alone here except you Monkey....
folks......

Code Monkey · 07-19-2006, 11:30 PM

Before I had a default zip in the user database because I didn't want to throw an error while developing this. I removed the default to allow for the message to users who have not set their weather data. Of course, I forgot to update the query to ignore empty values. So it updated mine because admins are first in the table, then died on the empty value. I didn't notice because mine was updated. Sometimes that's the price of late night coding.

I'll take that as my hint to get to bed.

Enjoy your day.

Code Monkey · 07-19-2006, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eric

it would be nice if someone else tests too now... seems I'm alone here except you Monkey....
folks......

Sad isn't it.

I appreciate your help though.

Code Monkey · 07-21-2006, 11:11 PM

I'm feeling cursed working on a weather mod.

It's 11:00 PM here and it's still 90 deg. This heatwave is way overboard. I sure hope the power doesn't go out. ):

Code Monkey · 07-23-2006, 09:28 AM

FYI: On the test site I have totally rewritten the javascript. It now updates the weather data for a new location ID when entered, if it is not already in the database. This way current data will be viewable right away.

Also, I am eliminating the US zip entry and making it Location ID only. This way we won't get two people with the same location but different id format having their data retrieved. It's wasteful and it might also violate the TOS with weather.com. Which is, not retrieving the current conditions for a location more than every half hour.

Anyone have ideas on other applications for this data? The data can be used anywhere userinfo is. Maybe a vbadvanced front page mod. OR maybe the users current temp and weather type in the postbit.

Eric · 07-23-2006, 12:56 PM

maybe add the possibility to ad the short weather version in central welcome block of vbadvanced ?
there is a lot of unused space there, well on my board anyway

that is, if you have some sweat left

Code Monkey · 07-23-2006, 11:40 PM

The new user interface is now available for testing in your usercp. I think you will find it is very cool indeed.

It offers good feedback and updates a new location ID upon entry. Give it a ride.

Now the only question is does it work in all your browsers.

Eric · 07-24-2006, 12:44 AM

don't see manything changed, guess the code below has changed

tried it on winxop pro and ie6 at work now and all seems fine, changed city in less then 30 secs.... back and forth to original
the weather showed was instantly updated

will do same later at home from nix and FF

Code Monkey · 07-24-2006, 07:23 AM

It should be giving you some visual feedback that a change is taking place.

Eric · 07-24-2006, 08:41 AM

mean the yellow flash ??
Just tested on FF at home (56k) and indeed I see the yellow frame when you save

at work on IE and broadband it is a flash , you hardly see it... think you need to set some time in the script or maybe once more IE doesn't respect coding, but that is something I can't judge

Code Monkey · 07-25-2006, 11:49 PM

It doesn't need to be there long. It's just a visual effect to let the user know something is happening. People are used to page refreshes as the indicator. With AJAX, you need to give them some form of replacement.

Code Monkey · 07-29-2006, 04:33 PM

I'm working on the vba front page bit if you want to check it out. I have never done much with vba so I will be tinkering a bit. If the front page breaks feel free to let me know.

Your input on the display would be appreciated.

Code Monkey · 07-30-2006, 09:30 AM

Anyone?

Oblivion Knight · 07-30-2006, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

I'm working on the vba front page bit if you want to check it out. I have never done much with vba so I will be tinkering a bit. If the front page breaks feel free to let me know.

Your input on the display would be appreciated.

Looks pretty good, but I'd try and design an alternative side module version too..