weather.php

weather.php

weather.php is a PHP script to obtain, cache, and emit a tiny string containing the current weather for a given METAR weather station location.  It was designed for use to put the weather into a tmux status bar.

Concept and Theory of operation:

As is the usual case, I wrote this because I couldn't find anything else that was both designed to provide suitable output and also actually worked.  weather.php periodically obtains a list of weather stations (90 days by default, and even this is probably overkill), and then at a frequency determined by the user (15 minutes by default), obtains a weather forecast from the given weather station and caches it, so that tmux doesn't cause it to request a new one every minute when it updates the status bar.

Documentation: Brief help is available when calling weather.php with its --help option. More detailed help is available by reading the man page. A sample configuration file is supplied as weather.conf-sample.php License, Documentation:

View the current: README • License (GPL)

Version history:

Requirements, Download(s):

Requires PHP-CLI 7.4 or greater.   It needs to have PCRE, and POSIX compiled in or loaded as an extension.  Virtually all PHP installations meet this requirement.

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