weather-forecast-widget

This extension gets and displays weather forecast data from a data provider.

Three providers are provided "out-of-the-box":

• BBC Weather: Detailed forecast for three days in advance.
• Google Weather: Description and min/max temperatures for four days in advance
• Yahoo: Forecast for two days - but the only documented API

The widget supports cacheing to reduce bandwidth in high load applications. Cacheing is on a provider::location basis so if you have forecasts for multiple locations and/or are using multiple providers on a page each is cached.

Comes with CSS and a symbol set, both of which can be overidden with your own.

The release file contains full documentation.

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Available Downloads

October 13, 2009

• Initial release.

October 18, 2009

• Now uses Yii DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant

Requirements

• Yii 1.0 or above

Installation

• Extract weatherForecast directory in the release file under protected/extensions/widgets
• Extract the documentation directory to a location of your choice.

Usage

See the following code example:

[php]       $this->widget('application.extensions.widgets.weatherForecast.WeatherForecast', array(
        'provider'=>'BBC',
        'params' => array(
        'location'=>'40', // BBCWeather::Paris
          'units' => 'C'
        ),
        'cache'=>array(
          3600, // Cache up to one hour
          new CExpressionDependency("date('H)") // Expire the cache at the top of the hour
        )
       ));