Php webtags: Difference between revisions

*An equivalent for version 3.0.x is at [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=13252&p=103860&hilit=cumuluswebtags.txt#p103830 this page on  support forum] also posted by the administrator (water01), and developed from the . This one does not contain any web tags added since 2015, but use this one also for versions before 3.5.3 to avoid any errors being reported and accept it may not include some of the web tags available in in-between versions.

* An alternative approach in the early days of MX was taken by Duke. You can download his version from [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10424#p99536 this storm rain topic]. His zip contains two files '''cumulustags_no_description.tpl''' and '''cumulustags_with_description.tpl''', each uses the approach of defining an array $WX in which the index to the array elements is the web tag name for example <code>$WX['rfall'] = '<#rfall>';  //  total rainfall so far today</code>. It contains all tags used by either Cumulus 1 or MX  in September 2014. If you use this script you need to call it by '''require_once 'cumulustags_no_description.php';''' because it contains functions that can only be declared once to convert between decimal degrees and degrees, minutes, seconds formats in either direction, basically because it it stripping out the HTML space characters used by Steve Loft for latitude and longitude. For Recent History web tags there are up to 27 different input parameters in some cases. The extra time and date parameters shown above appear, but as array elements e.g. <code>$WX['timeshort']  = '<#time format="hh:nn">';  //  current time (example format: 12:34)</code>.

** The advantage of only choosing one possible input parameter is that this template can use PHP variable names that match the web tag name, and only use PHP arrays when the web tag returns an array.