Yahoo Weather theme

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Yahooweather is no longer a modification of "Another Weather Theme 1.0". Only the php code to get the weatherdata is based on this theme. All other stuff are rewritten. This because I wanted the following issues:
- the php code was called for every bit of data. So older versions called the php code 20 times for every update. This is reduced now to 1 call per update.
- The theme had problems finding itself so people had to manually correct the paths in the source.

What is new:
- added a shell script that deals with the paths and calls the php code.
- added python script to make better use of karamba. (I had to learn python for this! e.g. this is actually my first ever written python script)
- cleaned the theme file.
- The theme will create a folder in the system temp (/tmp) called YahooWeather where it will store a data file, the downloaded html and log file if needed.
- At this moment the yahoo url is defined in the shell script. This will change in the future.
/* ------------ */
This is a modification of the "Another Weather Theme 1.0" that can be found here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Another+Weather+theme?content=101180

Added: - temperature display
- Five day forecast
- Location

Change the url in the "weather.php" file to match your location.
Last changelog:

10 years ago

- Problems with the paths are now solved I hope. (06-11-2010)
- Using less resources from the system.

- Yahoo changed its code again, so small update. (18-07-2010)
- Today (14-12-2009) Yahoo changed the code on it's weather page again. Modified the script so it works again.
- Today (12-11-2009) Yahoo changed the code on it's weather page. I had to modify the script to make it work again.
- Repacked the archive so it can be installed as archive by karamba.
- Changed paths to "themes" folder.

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xdunlapx

8 years ago

Download link is broken.

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Farsaj

9 years ago

Cannot download

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denisp

10 years ago

All I've got on my desktop is :

Max:
Min:

any idea about what's happening ?
Thanks

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merciful

10 years ago

Try to execute the file "weather.php". It should produce a output similar to this:

eabe@eabeacer:~/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/YahooWeather$ php ./weather.php
weatherpics/20n.png
8 C
12 C
6 C
Leeuwarden
Tonight:
6 / 12
weatherpics/29s.png
Tomorrow:
7 / 11
weatherpics/9s.png
Mon:
7 / 12
weatherpics/30s.png
Tue:
8 / 12
weatherpics/11s.png
Wed:
9 / 12
weatherpics/24s.png


If it does not, check your php installation. If it does, check the paths and correct them if needed.

Php should be at php5. I'm using this one:
PHP 5.2.13 (cli) (built: Mar 28 2010 20:43:45)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

This comes with Slackware 13.1

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denisp

10 years ago

Hi Merciful,

thanks for your answer.
I installed php5-cli.
checked php which is a symlink to /usr/bin/php5.

php ./weather.php gives me :

weatherpics/28d.png
11?C
15?C
8?C
Redon
Today:
8 / 15
weatherpics/11s.png
Tomorrow:
10 / 16
weatherpics/30s.png
Tue:
11 / 17
weatherpics/28s.png
Wed:
11 / 17
weatherpics/30s.png
Thu:
10 / 16
weatherpics/28s.png

but still no display except :
max:
min:

Regards,



PS : this is on a debian squeeze system

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merciful

10 years ago

In the files YahooWeather.pl & YahooWeather.theme check if the paths correspod to your actual path. Correct the paths in these files if needed!

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denisp

10 years ago

I checked the pathes : indeed there were two problems :
- I'm using trinity that is continuing kde 3 branch, so the config directory is ~/.trinity, not ~/.kde
- the directory where the theme files are located is
.../superkaramba/themes/YahooWeather-1/YahooWeather-1.3

and not
.../superkaramba/themes/YahooWeather-1

So I did the changes, but it still does not work. But I wonder if there is not another problem : the files are called pogoda.pl and pogoda.theme, not YahooWeather.pl and YahooWeather.theme as you said.

Regards,

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merciful

10 years ago

You can also try to change paths to the absolute paths e.g. /home/<username>/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/YahooWeather/

If nothing is displayed and you get info from weather.php, the theme can't find the .pl file or the .pl file can't find the weather.php file.

Eabe

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denisp

10 years ago

Sorry, I forgot one last problem.
I've got two squares instead of ° for temperatures. Is UTF8 supported ?
Thanks

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denisp

10 years ago

OK, now it works, but I had to do 3 things for that :
1) like you said, replace ~ by /home/denis in pogoda.theme
2) add "#!/bin/sh" at top of pogoda.pl (It looks strange since pl should have meant that it was a perl file, but it works)
3) chmod +x pogoda.pl

Thanks for your help

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merciful

10 years ago

in the .pl and .theme file change the paths to ~/.trinity/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/YahooWeather-1/YahooWeather-1.3/

or if this is not the correct path, to the real path.

Filenames doesn't matter really. I'm using a modified version that will be available soon.

Eabe

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MoonBlossom

10 years ago

Try installing php5-cli or php-cli

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nottinhill

10 years ago

Above goes if you install manually.

Installing from Karamba Menue works without alteration of files.

I fixed the issue with installing PHP-CLI. For SuSE it might be worth noting that this equals to PHP5. The Yahoo PNG are great, Thank you for the app!

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nottinhill

10 years ago

As for weather.php and pogoda.pl it has already been noted that they are messed up. A quick looks into pogoda.theme shows that it is also messed up thoroughly. All hardlinks go to wrong YahooWeather-1 Directory and not updated -1.2 directory. Also .kde might not work for .kde4 folders.

I fixed the 3 messed up files (that is 100% of the program!), but it still is not working. Anymore ideas? I use KDE4.3.5. I see only min/max font.

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kuchumovn

11 years ago

hi,
so how can i install it?
(I'm using Kubuntu 9.04)

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Grindcore

10 years ago

Check that you have the following packages installed:

superkaramba
plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba

Afterwards you should be able to install the file (choose Superkaramba in the dialogue).

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merciful

11 years ago

Hi,

You should be able to install it from within Karamba.

But you can also extract it and place it in this path:
Quote:~/.kde/share/apps/superkaramba/themes/YahooWeather-1/

Eabe

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astreaapn

11 years ago

replace this

# Echo stuff to calling app
echo $image."\n";
echo $temp."�C\n";
echo $max."�C\n";
echo $min."�C\n";

to

# Echo stuff to calling app
echo $image."\n";
echo $temp."°C\n";
echo $max."°C\n";
echo $min."°C\n";
echo $place."\n";

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merciful

11 years ago

Hi,

I only see this:

# Echo stuff to calling app
echo $image."\n";
echo $temp."°C\n";
echo $max."°C\n";
echo $min."°C\n";
echo $place."\n";

The question mark symbols from your example, I don't get here. Probably something with font or code page I guess.

Eabe

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merciful

11 years ago

Even on the console (Slackware / Nano) it looks all fine. What app are you using?

Eabe

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merciful

11 years ago

Only if I open the file with KWord, I get the same result as you.

The file is a plain text file. The best way to edit this file is using a text editor like KWrite, Kate, Nano or Vi.

Eabe

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astreaapn

11 years ago

Thank you for answering.
The problem is fix with the change of symbol posted before.

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astreaapn

11 years ago

send me a screenshot of that.

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merciful

11 years ago

Just send you a screenshot :-)

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10 years ago

- Problems with the paths are now solved I hope. (06-11-2010)
- Using less resources from the system.

- Yahoo changed its code again, so small update. (18-07-2010)
- Today (14-12-2009) Yahoo changed the code on it's weather page again. Modified the script so it works again.
- Today (12-11-2009) Yahoo changed the code on it's weather page. I had to modify the script to make it work again.
- Repacked the archive so it can be installed as archive by karamba.
- Changed paths to "themes" folder.

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