 This is a very easy module that let's you have the weather of all the regions available from MSNBC Weather. Just go to MSNBC Weather, get the code of your town (even very little towns are available) and add it in the administration all the towns you want separated with a comma. This module comes along with 3 small towns in a small country as example. New version changes: * only shows current temperature no matter what MSNBC gives - no more "random" effect * Cities names can be changed by user - no need to not have your town name if only the nearest one is in MSNBC Weather, or, if you want the town name in your own language.
CORRECTED: MSNBC website changed, so this version corrects the previous versions that stopped working correctly when grabbing information. At the same time data is more accurate than ever ;)
PROBLEMS: Some servers don't allow you to use file_get_contents() or access external data, so for those this module won't work.
TIPS: If you want you can change the link that accesses the MSNBC server http://weather.msn.com for a Spanish written one http://clima.msn.com that the module will still work (thanx the tip from Matias Chamullo )
NOTE: Temporarely we will have the file in our own domain, since Joomla Forge was dropped to another system and we still haven't been able to have it working in the new system.
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| Fixes by Marco Dimichele, September 23, 2008 |
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For those having the file_get_contents() error, or the weather not showing up, here's a fix.
Edit the file mod_jvtempo.php and replace the string at line 52:
$ConteudoRemoto = file_get_contents($url);
with this code:
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 0;
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$ConteudoRemoto = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); |
| Awesome module by snaf2k, June 3, 2008 |
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I've been using it for a while, but recently after switching my host the file_get_contents() error kept messing the script up, didn't know what to do since this is the only compact weather module out there... so did some research and turns out I just had to add
allow_url_fopen = 1
to php.ini on my server and it resolved everything!
Thanx for great module! |
| slow loading by galip, June 2, 2008 |
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this module is very nice but as someone before me wrote it's loading very slow and slowing down whole my site when MSN - Weather is loading slow!
I suggest to developers to set something like caching option to fix this major problem with this module
It would be also nice if module had an css class option... |
| Simply and working by Ludus, April 27, 2008 |
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I get this one module because was too tired to make some routine that would scrap liable weather information from some other place. It is working nice and smoothly, simply installation and set up. Bad part is that MSN Weather has just few cities from my country, so I wrote them with suggestion but have not so much hope.
I'm using Celsius grade rather than Fahrenheits, and I change encoding of mod_jvtempo.php from ANSI into utf-8 in order to proper represent sign of Celsius instead ?.
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| Degrees Symbol - Wrong Character Set by frankokc, April 6, 2008 |
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"Really good mod, very simple and adds lots to any site. Only problem I can find is that it doesn't show the degrees symbol properly." ....by redmattcat
The problem is located in the file, "mod_jvtempo.php", on line 119. Joao either typed the wrong character for degree or used a character set other than the one in UTF-8. I might not be very clear here, but the solution is easy. either convert the file to UTF-8 or type in the correct character. The correct code is here, "decimal: ° UTF-8 (c2, b0) °". Or you can simply copy and paste the degree sign in the previous sentence. I hope I made some sense. |
| Very Simple by dcurtis1, March 21, 2008 |
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This is a very very simple module. If you are looking for a bunch of bells and whistles you should probably keep looking. It's o.k. but I am looking for more features than this.
Nice start but need to keep working on it. |
| Easy Install | Didn't Slow Site | Clean View by headchief, March 1, 2008 |
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The installation and instructions were very simple and it was easy for me to find my city. I find that the blends well and I REALLY like the possibility of changing the city name if I do not like the name that the weather server gives - VERY GOOD GUYS |
| Very easy and good looking by thepisu, February 28, 2008 |
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Great! This module is very simple and easy, in fact it does not have any option, but is nice looking on many sites...
For italian people: it works also changing URLs to: http://meteo.it.msn.com/ |
| Great Module - Poor Speed by logz05, December 20, 2007 |
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I installed this module because I needed international weather with good symbols.
After a day of working with the site however I had to turn it off because it slowed the site up - by up to 20 seconds on the home page.
I tried changing the MSN site form .com to .co.uk but it did not seem to make any difference.
Shame because it is a good looking module - I guess the blame falls with MSN! |
| EggZellent!!! just one tiny lirr thing... by areba, November 12, 2007 |
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Overally, I really like this component,I like that i can customize the names of the cities and all that,
I just wish there was a way i could query direct to the "Full details" page.In my case, All i was looking for was a way to display the five day forecast of my city.
Cheers men!, ill email you with the hack once im done. |
| Works Okay by XXTexas, October 2, 2007 |
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This worked okay, for me, but the feed realy slowed down the loading of the page so I removed it.
I did encounter the "file_get_contents" warning when I added a second city. Turns out, I had a space after the comma and before the second city code. Eliminated the space and the error went away. |
| Slows down page load considerably by PlayGod, August 20, 2007 |
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1 of 1 people find this review helpful:
This is a simple mod that works as advertised. Be aware, however, that if MSN weather is running slow (like, say when there is a major storm or hurricane, etc.) then your page will load very slowly because it cannot quickly load the info from MSN weather server. I'm getting 15-sec. page load times on the pages where I'm displaying the JVtempo weatherbug when the MSN weather site is slow. I would strongly suggest the developer add a timeout routine that quits trying to load the weather data from MSN after 2 seconds. |
| failed to open stream by the2003s, August 1, 2007 |
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2 of 2 people find this review helpful:
I encountered the same problem as some other users described below when I tried to publish this module on my site. I get this error: Warning: file_get_contents(http://weather.msn.com/local.aspx?wealocations=wc:ROXX0023): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in html/joomla/modules/mod_jvtempo.php on line 52
It seems like a very nice extension, I wonder if anything can be done about this.. Maybe an update? |
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