Marine weather module/block question

jburnard - May 29, 2008 - 00:18

Hi Folks,

I'm working on a Drupal based site that will provide info for mariner/boaters. There are lots of sites that offer up to date marine weather and I'd like to be able to incorporate it into mine as well but without having to send someone outside to another site. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might go about incorporating a feed or another public source but within the confines of my site?

Thanks much for reading.

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In case I'm not being

jburnard - May 29, 2008 - 13:51

In case I'm not being clear... Here's an example. Let's say I wanted to have a link that says "weather" and when you click on it you stay within the confines of the site but I pull in the data from http://www.wunderground.com/MAR

Is that possible?

Thanks.

Weather module

andremasteredge - May 29, 2008 - 14:03

I am assuming that the regular weather module is not going to work for you? Have you tried it?

Kind regards,
Andre van Schalkwyk (South Africa)
www.drupaldevelopment.co.za

Thanks for the comment. I

jburnard - May 29, 2008 - 21:09

Thanks for the comment. I have downloaded it and am starting to work with it but... I need marine specific info, like tides and wave height, etc. I didn't think from what I read that the weather mod would do that for me. If I'm wrong then I apologize for posting to soon!

If what I want can't be done then someone please let me know that too. Or if it's a total custom coded process I would love to know that too before I go down the wrong path.

Thanks again.

Tides etc

andremasteredge - May 30, 2008 - 08:21

Its my pleasure, always willing to help, gotta love the Drupal community & then it loves you back. But as far as the tides etc go, I suppose you would need to write some custom stuff to fetch that data, however I dont know enough about that to actually help you along, but you can always speak to the custom module development guys in the http://drupal.org/forum/4.

Good luck,
Andre van Schalkwyk (South Africa)
www.drupaldevelopment.co.za

Tide Module

hoyt - November 20, 2008 - 00:40

You could probably use the Xtide application at http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/.

While it is a UNIX app, there is a Win32 variant available.

The UNIX app provides a CLI, a GUI and a standalone web server. It should be possible to manipulate the data from one of those to display in a module.

I, too, was looking for a tides module; I'm just not skilled enough to write one.

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hoyt

Have you thought about

troym559 - November 20, 2008 - 01:00

Have you thought about making a block or page with an i-frame pointing to the information that you want to display? I have done somthing simalir to that using an i-frame to show information from www.weather.com on my site. It works good and keeps people from having to leave my site to get the info.