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I updated to build 970 today, and I really like the new functionality.

I have a custom web page that displays the current temperature, and now there is some junk following the temperature. I think it is because there is now a place for units, but if no units are entered, shouldn't it default to not showing anything?

Current Temperature 41.5 °F ÿþ
http://shotsky.gotdns.com/webcam.htm
Thanks,
John

I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you show me the template that generates that page?

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Here is the code that displays the temperature, unchanged from before build 970.
<tr class="td_temperature_data">
<td>Current Temperature</td>
<td><#temp>&nbsp;<#tempunit></td>
</tr>
As my original post shows, the temperature and units display correctly, but that is followed by some more characters that shouldn't be there. Or you can see it below the webcam on my page.

Oh, and by the way, is there a downloadable, current list of webtags? I updated the php cumuluswebtags.txt up to build 968, but now I think that's out of date too. What I'd really like is a web page that has every webtag on it with its caption. I was thinking of making one, but I have questions about usage of some of them. I might still try it.

Thanks,
John

The problem is after that:

<tr class="td_temperature_data">
<td>Current Temperature</td>
<td>41.3&nbsp;&deg;F</td>
</tr>
<!--Start of menu-->
ÿþ

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But, the file is processed by Cumulus. There is a php call for inserting the menu in the source file. Cumulus should ignore the php call, and just process the tags, right? The previous version of Cumulus didn't show those characters, or maybe I didn't see them after inserting the bottom menu. I'll try enclosing the temperature in <p> tags to see if Cumulus processes it differently.

Here's more of the code. As you can see, it is at the point there the php call appears that the characters appear.
<!--End WebCam here -->
<br />
<tr class="td_temperature_data">
<td>Current Temperature</td>
<td><#temp>&nbsp;<#tempunit></td>
</tr>
<!--Start of menu-->
<?php include ("menu/bottom_menu.htm"); ?>
<!--End of menu-->

Thanks,
John

Yes, that's what it does. It only processes anything between <# and >. You can check what Cumulus is actually producing by looking at the processed file on your PC. That will prove one way or the other whether Cumulus is inserting the garbage or not.

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Ok, problem solved, but unfortunately, I don't know exactly what fixed it. It wasn't a Cumulus problem after all. I insert menus using php so I only need to edit one menu to change them all. The top menu didn't have a problem, but the bottom menu did. They both use the same css, so it isn't the css file. When I placed the top menu at the bottom in place of the bottom menu, it worked correctly. So, I added the bottom menu items and it still worked correctly. Then, I saved the top menu as the bottom menu and that worked ok. Then, I removed the top menu items from the bottom menu, and that works too.

The only real clue I have is that when viewing the HTML source in a text editor, PHP appears to have putting the bottom menu in Unicode, but not the top one. As I view it now, they are both correct. There may be some 'thing' in PHP that makes it code a page as unicode, but I don't know what it would be. I mention this only because it might happen to someone else and maybe this will help them.

Back to 970 - excellent work. The new appearance and tweaks are awesome. If I were to ask for anything, it would be the ability to choose colors by number, so I could better match things to my web pages. I looked in the .ini file, but don't recognize the color codes. Maybe if there were a way to convert html color codes to the codes you use, I could do it by editing the .ini file.

Thanks!
John

They're 24-bit numbers like HTML colour codes, but the bytes are in reverse order, i.e where HTML goes RRGGBB in hex, Delphi goes BBGGRR. So 255 (#0000FF) is red in Delphi and blue in HTML.

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