Installation instructions for PHP Weather 2.1.1 2003-03-05
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Martin Geisler <gimpster@gimpster.com>
Licensed under the GNU GPL. See the file COPYING for details.


Getting the source
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You can always get the latest version from

  http://www.phpweather.net


Installation
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To try out PHP Weather to see that it works, just untar the tarball
into a directory on your webserver, and load the page index.php in your
favorite browser.

There will be a drop-down list where you can select a city and a
language, so have the weather for that city displayed in the chosen
language.


Configuration and Database Setup
--------------------------------
You'll want to configure PHP Weather to use a database as a cache for
the METARs it fetches so that things can go faster.

To help you with this task you'll find a couple of scripts in the
config/ subdirectory. The make_config.php script helps you build a
configuration-file for PHP Weather and the make_db.php script will try
and make the necessary database tables for you after you've configured
PHP Weather.

Just follow the instructions in the relevant scripts.


Bugs?
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If you find a bug or have a feature request for PHP Weather, please 
don't hesitate to report it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpweather/
We have a mailing list for general discussions about PHP Weather, 
but before you can send mails to the list, you have to subscribe 
to it - go to this page to subscribe:

  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpweather-devel

If PHP Weather is decoding a METAR incorrectly, please remember to 
include that METAR you're having problems with when you send a 
message or submit a bug. Without it, we can't really help you.

This version of PHP Weather only works with PHP4. The PHP Weather
1.x series work with PHP3, and are available from the project 
page on sourceforge.

Enjoy! - Martin Geisler <gimpster@gimpster.com>
