WeatherPlugin

Simple plugin to display weather information for a specific location. It uses Weather::Com and requires a free Weather.com subscription (see the Weather::Com manpage).

Syntax Rules

• %WEATHER{City, Country}%
• %WEATHER{Citycode}%

Examples

• %WEATHER{Zurich, Switzerland}%
• %WEATHER{GMXX0040}%

Bugs

• Yes!
• The citycode is only necessary in case you have some non-alphabetic chars in your string, e.g Frankfurt/Main. I didn't manage to get Weather::Com parse that. So if you have more than one cities with the same name in the country, you'd rather take the city code. Feel free to fix that

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %INTERWIKIPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Displays nice weather graphics for a specific location

• Partner ID and License Key (Get them from Weather.com, see Weather::Com manpage (Free of charge))
  • Set PARTNERID = 1010477700
  • Set LICENSE = 7404700e4f99a91b

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Plugin Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this plugin. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the plugin on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip WeatherPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/WeatherPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/WeatherPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module

• Test if the installation was successful:

%WEATHER{Zurich, Switzerland}%

Plugin Info

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences, TWikiPlugins

-- TWiki:Main/AndreBonhote - 01 Nov 2004