Alternative Dashboard Script Released (Ver 5.03 FINAL RELEASE)

stewart45 · 14 October 2009 12:21

Hi Budgie
Had a look at Settings.php all set to metric units, not sure what the readings were before I switched over, though it was working

HometownZone · 14 October 2009 23:41

[quote author=Budgie link=topic=37938.msg345192#msg345192 date=1255509546]
I’ve got ‘F’ in that area in the thermometer.php file as I think the

stewart45 · 15 October 2009 12:15

Thanks Hometownzone
Problem solved

HometownZone · 15 October 2009 23:53

Glad I could help!

Scott

i_fiorentino · 16 October 2009 08:06

Hi Scott!

Is it possible that 60-min and 120-min avg remains always “Calm”??
I’ve never seen other values.
Link: http://www.meteocarmignano.it
Thanks,

Alessandro

HometownZone · 16 October 2009 12:50

Does your main wind reading show anything other then calm? I know the code is working as it is working for me and the other sites I’ve visisted that use it. When I checked yours this morning it read calm but the graphical display at the top says there is wind?

Scott

cnyweather · 16 October 2009 12:54

Alessandro, check you testtags and make sure the correct tags for those 2 are in there.
I had the same issue and was missing those 2 tags.

i_fiorentino · 16 October 2009 14:50

Hi,
thanks Tony.
i hadn’t these tags in my testtags.txt…I’ve insert it now, i’m waiting their updates.
Best regards,

Alessandro

Blackjack52 · 18 October 2009 01:13

Thanks for the work on the script HometownZone.

I just upgraded to the latest version. Any pointers to get rid of the free space in the 1st row? I’m not using the cloud graphic.

Budgie · 18 October 2009 09:52

I put a reduced webcam image in there instead, or maybe a graph.

Blackjack52 · 18 October 2009 15:35

There just seems to be a lot of dead space if not using the cloud graphic.
I already use my Madcam image and really prefer not moving it.

Before going down this road, is it possible to shorten the 1st column by removing the space for ‘record low’ image, then remove the extra space above the wind rose, precip, and outlook columns?

Can I simply cut and paste the table code from the previous ver?

HometownZone · 18 October 2009 16:26

Part of the issue is, the alt-dashboard was designed to use the larger current conditions image and that fills up a lot of the first column. There are other settings that allow you to display more information on the first column too. In version 4.20 I changed the format of the first column to help that even more. When I view your site now, the only column that has any real open space is column 1 and as I said, that is fixable. (see image)

Scott

HometownZone · 18 October 2009 16:31

Use the larger current image and turn on the sun/moon rise option of you aren’t using Weather Undergrounds info for All time High/Lows

Scott

Blackjack52 · 18 October 2009 17:16

Thanks for taking a look.
The capture you took of my pg has no free space in the 1st row except above the current icon; and that’s how I would like it to look. However, when I view it, it looks like this (ie8):

Blackjack52 · 18 October 2009 19:37

I changed w to 190. Displays correctly now.

<?php } // end $useWU  ---------------------------------------- ?>

                  </table>
		</td>
              </tr>
            </table>
	  </td>
          <td valign="middle">
	    <table width="190" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
              <tr>
                <td class="data1" valign="middle" align="center" style="border: none">
				  <img src="<?php echo $imagesDir; ?>spacer.gif" width="1" 
				    height="<?php echo $wrHeight; ?>" alt=" " align="left"/>
				  <span class="ajax" id="ajaxwindiconwr">
				  <?php $wr = $imagesDir . $wrName . $dirlabel . $wrType; // normal wind rose
				        $wrtext = "Wind from $dirlabel";
						if ( (strip_units($avgspd) + strip_units($gstspd) < 0.1 ) and
						     ($wrCalm <> '') ) { // use calm instead
						  $wr = $imagesDir . $wrCalm;
						  $wrtext = $bftspeedtext;

vagold · 22 October 2009 11:46

Hi
How do i change the text color that is in this picture.
Im am trying to get it to be white like the rest of the dash board text is.
Thanks

Blackjack52 · 22 October 2009 14:27

Budgie post:392:

I’ve had a play with it and got my own background to change to #C0C0C0 by the following method:

Open your CSS file and find data4, now insert this CSS code below it:
.ajaxDashboard .data5 {
 color: black;
 background-color: #C0C0C0;
 text-align: left;
}
Save and upload the CSS file.

In your ajax-dashboard.php file find the start of the table that the short term forecast is in, after the <table add class=“data5”
This will change the background of the table, but not the background of the individual cells. To do that you need to add class=“data5” into every tag within the table so that it looks like this:
Now save and upload the file.

You might have to create a new class using the code above. When I did it, I think I had to create a data4 and then change the color hex value to my gray backgrnd.

andro700 · 23 October 2009 04:52

This is what I did. Look under your ajax-dashboard.php and look for the following for the Forecast.

<? print $fcstorg; ?> Weather Forecast - <?php echo $forecasttitles[0]; ?>'s and <?php echo $forecasttitles[1]; ?>'s Outlook

[b] [b]

For the shortterm Forecast

[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[0] . " " . $forecasttemp[0]; ?>

[/b] <?php print "$fcstorg forecast: " . $forecasttext[0] . " \n"; if ($fcstorg <> 'WXSIM' and isset($WXSIMtext[0]) ) { print ' WXSIM forecast: ' . $WXSIMtext[0] . " \n"; } if (($useVPfc) && ($vpforecasttext <> '')) { print ' Local station forecast: ' . ucfirst($vpforecasttext) . ""; } ?>

<? print $fcstorg; ?> Short Term Weather Forecast

[b]

[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[2]; ?>
<?php echo $forecasttemp[2]; ?> </td> [b]<td style="font-size: 9pt; color:#FBC723; border: none;text-align: center" valign="middle" align="center">[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[3]; ?> <?php echo $forecasttemp[3]; ?> </td> [b]<td style="font-size: 9pt; color:#FBC723; border: none;text-align: center" valign="middle" align="center">[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[4]; ?> <?php echo $forecasttemp[4]; ?> </td> [b]<td style="font-size: 9pt; color:#FBC723; border: none;text-align: center" valign="middle" align="center">[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[5]; ?> <?php echo $forecasttemp[5]; ?> </td> [b]<td style="font-size: 9pt; color:#FBC723; border: none;text-align: center" valign="middle" align="center">[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[6]; ?> <?php echo $forecasttemp[6]; ?> </td> <[b]td style="font-size: 9pt; color:#FBC723; border: none;text-align: center" valign="middle" align="center">[/b] <?php echo $forecasticons[7]; ?> <?php echo $forecasttemp[7]; ?> </td>

Chuck

Blackjack52 · 24 October 2009 14:54

Suggestion for next rev:

Change Humidity/Dew Pt title to Water Vapor.
Under this column, move Humidex to Summary/Temperature column. Move Air Density to the old Humidex place.
I moved dp up to the top because to me it’s more importangt than humidity.

Move Feels Like temp up w/ Humidex.

Is ‘feels like’ temp apparent or THWS?

mfd38 · 24 October 2009 15:27

Nice looking dashboard, I like it. Just a thought, would it make sense to move the wind chill block to the space directly below the current wind data? Thanks,
PAul