Topic: Removal / No display of forecast icaons in advforecast.php script

[SoMDWx]

Good day All!

Is there a way to turn off the displaying of the forecast icons that the advforecast.php script produces? I just want the day, short text of forecast and the hi/low to display with NO icon.

Thanks!

Jim

[saratogaWX]

Rather than changing the advforcast2.php script, you can pick/choose what to display by 'silently' invoking the script and printing the variables it provides directly.

Silent invocation:

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<?php
$doPrintNWS = false;
include_once("advforecast2.php"); ?>
then elsewhere on the page (where you'd like to see the data) use

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<?php
$i=0; // select the current icon 
print $forecasttitles[$i]."<br/>\n"; // print the day name
print $forecastcond[$i]."<br/>\n"; // print the short condition description
print $forecasttemp[$i]."<br/>\n"; // print the formatted Hi/Lo temperature
print $forecasttext[$i]."<br/>\n";  // print the long forecast text
?>That way, you can easily replace the advforecast2.php script when updates are available and not have to worry about refitting your mods.

Best regards,
Ken

[SoMDWx]

Awesome! Thanks Ken (again  )

Jim

[SoMDWx]

Ruh roh, I don not see any variable called $forecastcond in my advforecast2.php script.

[saratogaWX]

Oops.. that's correct, the current V4 advforecast2.php doesn't have a $forecastcond variable.. sorry.  The V5 of the script does (to support the March release of the new forecast.weather.gov website).

An alternative approach would be the prune out the actual <img ... /> tag from $forecasticons[$i] and display that.. it would have the day name, condition in it (with a set of <br/> tags).  Something like

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<?php
$i = 0;
$cond = preg_replace('|<img [^>]+>|i','',$forecasticons[$i]);
$cond = preg_replace('|<br/>|i',' ',$cond);
?>
Then $cond would look like

'Thursday   Heavy Rain then Chance Rain '

Sorry for the confusion, I was looking at (and working on) the replacement advforecast2.php script which does have a $forecastcond variable added.