Description
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This module uses METAR data to display current weather conditions from
anywhere in the world.
Features
--------
* Supports an unlimited number of blocks and an unlimited number
of locations per block
* Provides a custom block which can be administrated by a user
* Users can search for a location and get a display of the
weather conditions
* Integrates with Location module and shows the weather nearby
a node's location
* Displays different images for daytime and nighttime
* Download of current METAR data is scheduled in a smart way
to reduce unnecessary network traffic and keep your site
responsive
* Provides three different methods to download the METAR data
(fopen, curl, and wget) and multiple download locations
* Displayed units of the weather data are completely configurable
* Layout of displayed block is configurable with the template engine
* Fully translatable, currently available in English, German,
Dutch, Czech, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Danish, Italian,
Spanish, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish,
Romanian, Greek, and Croatian.
* Works well with MySQL or PostgreSQL databases
Author
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Tobias Quathamer <t.quathamer@gmx.net>
It was inspired by the Weather module which was written in 2004 by
Gerard Ryan <gerardryan@canada.com>.
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- Description
- -----------
-
- This module uses METAR data to display current weather conditions from
- anywhere in the world.
-
- Features
- --------
-
- * Supports an unlimited number of blocks and an unlimited number
- of locations per block
- * Provides a custom block which can be administrated by a user
- * Users can search for a location and get a display of the
- weather conditions
- * Integrates with Location module and shows the weather nearby
- a node's location
- * Displays different images for daytime and nighttime
- * Download of current METAR data is scheduled in a smart way
- to reduce unnecessary network traffic and keep your site
- responsive
- * Provides three different methods to download the METAR data
- (fopen, curl, and wget) and multiple download locations
- * Displayed units of the weather data are completely configurable
- * Layout of displayed block is configurable with the template engine
- * Fully translatable, currently available in English, German,
- Dutch, Czech, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Danish, Italian,
- Spanish, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish,
- Romanian, Greek, and Croatian.
- * Works well with MySQL or PostgreSQL databases
-
- Author
- ------
- Tobias Quathamer
-
- It was inspired by the Weather module which was written in 2004 by
- Gerard Ryan .