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Weather in a Thread

captainron19
03-27-2007, 10:26 AM
I run a Disney Forum site and I am interested in inputting weather based on locations I want and I want these to appear in a thread. (one thread for each of the Disney parks).

After I get the thread up I plan on closing it to not allow any posts so members can just view the threads to view the weather.

I tried allowing html for the specific thread and inserted the code from a weather web site but it did not work.

Any recommendations?

Dave A
03-27-2007, 11:06 AM
Maybe someone else will have a suggestion that works in the forum medium, but I'd put that kind of dynamic content into modules of a cms such as vBadvanced (http://vbadvanced.com/). Use something like the left side column hack (used in the forum index page here) to show a link or button to the relevant page(s). Or put the code directly into the left side column hack.

Maybe not what you were looking for, but some options.

Peggy
03-27-2007, 11:09 AM
I have to agree with Dave.

captainron19
03-28-2007, 07:22 AM
Thanks guys - I actually found that I could use www.wunderground.com and retrieve an online image that refreshes throughout the day as it is updated.

I managed to put it exactly where i wanted it . se it up at:
http://disney-forums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=58

Dave A
03-28-2007, 08:04 AM
That works. Nice. Just a pity the "Click for Forecast" doesn't. Maybe add a link underneath that does? Or wrap the image tags in url= tags?
(Would that work?)
/goes off to play

Peggy
03-28-2007, 10:35 AM
Yeah, the Click for Forecast doesn't work at all. But this is a nice idea, if you can get it to work right.

I use wunderground weather on my blogs, and I knew you could use it on a cmps, but didn't know that you could put it in a thread. Good work. :)

Dave A
03-28-2007, 12:44 PM
Just playing with it.

http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/infoboxtr_both/language/www/US/FL/Orlando.gif (http://www.wunderground.com/US/FL/Orlando.html)
And here's the BB code that makes it clickable:

http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/infoboxtr_both/language/www/US/FL/Orlando.gif (http://www.wunderground.com/US/FL/Orlando.html)

p.s. center & url should be in caps, but both the html & php tag to prevent parsing puts them in lower case ???

Peggy
03-28-2007, 01:03 PM
Yep that's the one that I use on my blogs, and cmps's


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