Topic: Is there a wxastronomy update

[zeppline]

Thanks I have it on the desktop. I will down load and start over I will make folder then unzip to folder. thanks again

[scudwatcher]

Ok Gentlemen,
  I am trying to figure out the proper "click" and/or "tick" for WD Internet File Creation and Upload of moondetail1.gif!  Do I tick "upload every 5 min?, every 30 seconds? or every minute?, JEEZ, to many options in WD!  Also, before I view https://csraweather.org/wxastronomy.php, I clear out cache in GOOGLE CHROME.  Could someone please assist?  Refer to the attached screenshots.....THANK YOU!


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[scudwatcher]

Gentlemen,
  I believe I figured it out!  It's beer-thirty as well!  SOLVED!  Thank You for all your help!

[hcorrin]

just for info i have mine set for every 2 hours

[zeppline]

Another success only four days and my eyes are falling out. Thank you to all for the help. Joe

https://lasvegaswx.com/wxastronomy1.php

[W3DRM]

Perhaps I have missed something here but I can't seem to find a current version of wxastronomy for USA usage in the Saratoga template. The version I am running (Version 1.01 - 22-Jan-2012) doesn't work nor does it make any reference to the "include-wxastronomy.php" file. I'm lost and need some help figuring this out.

Thanks,

[scudwatcher]

Hey Don,
  Really enjoyed viewing your page!

  1.  Please read this ENTIRE message thread for doing that really helped me get mine up and running at:
       https://csraweather.org/wxastronomy.php
       Pay close attention to Ken True's specific instructions.

  2.  Reply # 3  Download "wxastonomy-php8.zip", unzip to your local file, then upload to your website server after configuration to your site
       specifics.

  3.  Reply #5   Check your c:/wdisplay/webfiles/testtags.txt file to ensure the required testtags are there.  If not, download testtags.txt.

  4.  Reply #8  Go to https://jpgraph.net/download/ and download "jpgraph-4.4.1.tar.gz, unzip to your local file maintaining file structure, then
       upload to webserver.

  4.  Reply #31  Download "sunposa-V2.02.zip", unzip to your local file and upload to your webserver after configuration to your site specifics.

  5.  Reply #66  Download "astronomyicons.zip", unzip to your /ajax/images/ folder then upload to your webserver.

  6.  Reply#68  Look at "wxastronomy.txt" and download if needed.

  7.  Reply #81 and #101:
      Go to your WD/CONTROL PANEL/INTERNET FILE CREATION SETUP
      Scroll down to file #31 "EXTRA MOON DETAILS"
      Click on "SET"
      Click on "CREATE THIS FILE NOW"
      Click/Check "UPLOAD EVERY 1 MIN OR 5 MIN (YOUR PREFERENCE)
      Click "UPLOAD FILE NOW"
      Click  "SAVE NOW"
      Click  "OK"

I am here if you have any questions.....hopefully, this will help.
     
       

[W3DRM]

Thanks for the detailed sequence for getting wxastronomy running again. I must have missed a lot while I was in the process of moving late last year. I am currently trying to get my new website up and running and it's taking me a lot of time going through each of the menu items one at a time and bringing them up-to-date.

I'll start working on this tomorrow.

Best regards,
Don

Hey Don,
  Really enjoyed viewing your page!

  1.  Please read this ENTIRE message thread for doing that really helped me get mine up and running at:
       https://csraweather.org/wxastronomy.php
       Pay close attention to Ken True's specific instructions.

  2.  Reply # 3  Download "wxastonomy-php8.zip", unzip to your local file, then upload to your website server after configuration to your site
       specifics.

  3.  Reply #5   Check your c:/wdisplay/webfiles/testtags.txt file to ensure the required testtags are there.  If not, download testtags.txt.

  4.  Reply #8  Go to https://jpgraph.net/download/ and download "jpgraph-4.4.1.tar.gz, unzip to your local file maintaining file structure, then
       upload to webserver.

  4.  Reply #31  Download "sunposa-V2.02.zip", unzip to your local file and upload to your webserver after configuration to your site specifics.

  5.  Reply #66  Download "astronomyicons.zip", unzip to your /ajax/images/ folder then upload to your webserver.

  6.  Reply#68  Look at "wxastronomy.txt" and download if needed.

  7.  Reply #81 and #101:
      Go to your WD/CONTROL PANEL/INTERNET FILE CREATION SETUP
      Scroll down to file #31 "EXTRA MOON DETAILS"
      Click on "SET"
      Click on "CREATE THIS FILE NOW"
      Click/Check "UPLOAD EVERY 1 MIN OR 5 MIN (YOUR PREFERENCE)
      Click "UPLOAD FILE NOW"
      Click  "SAVE NOW"
      Click  "OK"

I am here if you have any questions.....hopefully, this will help.
     
     

[saratogaWX]

Perhaps I have missed something here but I can't seem to find a current version of wxastronomy for USA usage in the Saratoga template. The version I am running (Version 1.01 - 22-Jan-2012) doesn't work nor does it make any reference to the "include-wxastronomy.php" file. I'm lost and need some help figuring this out.

Thanks,

Hi Don,
The 'stock' wxastronomy.php page distributed in the Base-*.zip files is Version 1.01 - 22-Jan-2012 and is 'all-in-one'.  Only needs info from other scripts (like common.php, and tags file) to display.  It has no other includes.

The alternative wxastronomy.php page uses include-wxastronomy.php for it's displays.. that script was written by Bashewa weather, and updated by various folks over the years. 

So.. two different scripts, unfortunately named the same.

Use @scudwatcher's post above to get the alternative one working instead of the stock one.

[weatherbee]

I've read all the posts and I think made all the changes, but I still can't get sunposa.php to work in the astronomy page.
It's here at https://www.shermanctweather.org/mb/wxastronomy.php
Thanks,
Tom

[saratogaWX]

Your sunposa.php returns

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagecreatefromgif(): './ajax-images/moon/w/NH-moon24.gif' is not a valid GIF file in <b>/home/shermanc/public_html/mb/sunposa.php</b> on line <b>618</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagecopyresized() expects parameter 2 to be resource, bool given in <b>/home/shermanc/public_html/mb/sunposa.php</b> on line <b>620</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imageinterlace() expects parameter 1 to be resource, bool given in <b>/home/shermanc/public_html/mb/sunposa.php</b> on line <b>621</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  imagepng() expects parameter 1 to be resource, bool given in <b>/home/shermanc/public_html/mb/sunposa.php</b> on line <b>622</b><br />

before the actual image.

I'd suggest re-uploading mb/ajax-images/moon/w/NH-moon*.gif from the .zip using FTP binary mode.

[weatherbee]

Ken,
Wow you are fast.  That was the problem.
Thank you for all your help.
Tom

[W3DRM]

[scudwatcher] I have gone over all of the steps you and others have posted in this thread. I have made a little progress but still can't get the sun graphic to display. Everything else appears to be working fine.
You can see the results here: https://emmettweather.com/wxastronomy.php

Initially I would only see a line across the screen but now I see an error message for jpgraph. I must have changed something but don't know what it was that caused the apparent error.

Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance...
 

Hey Don,
  Really enjoyed viewing your page!

  1.  Please read this ENTIRE message thread for doing that really helped me get mine up and running at:
       https://csraweather.org/wxastronomy.php
       Pay close attention to Ken True's specific instructions.

  2.  Reply # 3  Download "wxastonomy-php8.zip", unzip to your local file, then upload to your website server after configuration to your site
       specifics.

  3.  Reply #5   Check your c:/wdisplay/webfiles/testtags.txt file to ensure the required testtags are there.  If not, download testtags.txt.

  4.  Reply #8  Go to https://jpgraph.net/download/ and download "jpgraph-4.4.1.tar.gz, unzip to your local file maintaining file structure, then
       upload to webserver.

  4.  Reply #31  Download "sunposa-V2.02.zip", unzip to your local file and upload to your webserver after configuration to your site specifics.

  5.  Reply #66  Download "astronomyicons.zip", unzip to your /ajax/images/ folder then upload to your webserver.

  6.  Reply#68  Look at "wxastronomy.txt" and download if needed.

  7.  Reply #81 and #101:
      Go to your WD/CONTROL PANEL/INTERNET FILE CREATION SETUP
      Scroll down to file #31 "EXTRA MOON DETAILS"
      Click on "SET"
      Click on "CREATE THIS FILE NOW"
      Click/Check "UPLOAD EVERY 1 MIN OR 5 MIN (YOUR PREFERENCE)
      Click "UPLOAD FILE NOW"
      Click  "SAVE NOW"
      Click  "OK"

I am here if you have any questions.....hopefully, this will help.
     
     

[Vasco]

Initially I would only see a line across the screen but now I see an error message for jpgraph.

From my limited experience of JpGraph the message means that the font file arialbd.ttf is not present in the location expected. It's not included in the JpGraph download.

You can upload it from Windows fonts.

[zeppline]

I had the same problem, go to google and update Windows fonts and follow how to install fonts.

[W3DRM]

That font is and has been installed on all of my windows computers for a long time. I have two desktops and three laptops plus an iPad. All of them exhibit the same issue when viewing the wxastronomy webpage.

Unless I misunderstand how a browser works, it uses the configuration of the viewers computer to display a font. Font display is not controlled by the web server.

Additionally, when I Inspect the page in Chrome, I am getting errors regarding the code attempting to open http:// websites and are being blocked by the browser. Perhaps I have some old code in the routines.?

[hcorrin]

The arial font needs to be down loaded and installed in the fonts folder in the src folder in the jpgragh folder on your server as that is were it is being directed to, not the fonts on the browsers computer

[scudwatcher]

W3DRM,
  Forgive me for my delayed response....have you resolved the font issue?

[zeppline]

what version of jpgraphs? I have Jpgraphs4.4.1 and it works.

[K6GKM]

The arial font needs to be down loaded and installed in the fonts folder in the src folder in the jpgragh folder on your server as that is were it is being directed to, not the fonts on the browsers computer

W3DRM,
If I'm remembering correctly, I had the same issue when implementing this alternative wxastronomy script set.  I also had to find and upload the arial.ttf font.  Something to do with the way the script is rendering the information requires the font to be on the web hosting server.  It looks like you got that done, but your moon phase images also seem to be missing.  Broken image link in the Sun, Moon, & Seasons box.  Adding the atttached directory and contents to your /ajax-images/ folder on your webserver should take care of it.

[W3DRM]

K6GKM,

Thanks for the file. I’ll look into it this weekend. I’ve been very busy with unpacking from our move and have limited time to work on my website and the many nagging issues in getting things running again. Plus, as a ham, you’ll understand that my having moved into a new home with an HOA and very rigid CCR’s are making the installation of both weather instruments and ham radio antennas/devices very challenging.

I’ll update what happens after I work on the file.

Thanks again!

[tigerbait]

Any one explain why the astronomy page is showing Summer?  I looked at fellow friends pages and it shows Summer as well. https://www.sporttiger.com/wxastronomy.php

[scudwatcher]

Yeah, I noticed that too!

[DW7240]

Hmm, mine is showing Spring still, but have noticed that the timing of the seasons changing has been off in the past months, so I'm waiting for mine to change automatically.  In the past have had to make it change manually by swapping the season names on the default season line of the script.

[92merc]

I checked mine yesterday after the above post.  Mine is showing Summer as well.

https://www.bismarckweather.net/wxastronomy.php