Sandaysoft

Hi all

Well I am stuck on a issue, I want to call a realtime.txt from another host, but when I enter the path it dose not work.

This is the code if the Javascript was in the same file as the cumulus realtime.txt file on the host.

var realtime_location="realtime.txt";

But I can't get it call another realtime.txt file from another cumulus install on another host.

what would be the command?

Thanks all.

Brendan

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I think the answer is that Javascript does not allow cross-domain access, because it's a security risk.

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Steve
Sanday Weather
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Bugger....

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Brendan, you would have better chances of accomplishing that task if you were to use PHP as PHP is a server-side language whereas JavaScript is a user-side language.

Although I have been 'playing' with PHP for the past 6-7 years, unfortunately, my knowledge on how such a task can be accomplished is very very limited...

My PHP is even more limited, but cURL springs to mind?

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Mark
Wilmslow Astro Weather

Brendan,
You might find something here: http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.http-get.php


Cheers.

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Graeme.
http://weather.gktnet.com/cumulus/index.htm

Do you have PHP ?

Do you want to process the file with JavaScript or PHP ?

IS IT YOUR DATA !

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......................Imagine, what you will KNOW tomorrow !

Yes its my data (to start with) and one other from my mates station.

I do have PHP,

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Brendan, if you are interested in learning something new, you might want to download and look at the code within Ken True's PHP/AJAX Website Template Sets (I would suggest the world templates) - I know, this might not be the 'easy-way-out' most people are expecting, but it would be a rewarding learning experience.

Ken uses a function called 'fetchUrlWithoutHanging' (that function name is found in the 'check-fetch-times.php' template, but the same/similar function or under a slightly different name is also found in many other templates - a search for the word 'WithoutHanging' should provide many results) - the function is used to get contents from one URL and to return it as a string. Depending on how much protection and processing is needed, the function can be a few lines of code or many lines of code (that is why I am not posting any of the code).

That's as good an education as you can get if you can get your head around it

Learning the 'routines' for grab and parsing will give you lots of new ideas

You don't say if you want to cyclically get the realtime.txt or do it as 'one-shot', that will make a difference to the solution you use, but the basics will be the same.

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Hmm I have been looking at PHP... seems to be the way to go.. so I will have to site down and learn the code.... O fun

Thanks you for all your help

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Brendan,
A good place to start is http://www.w3schools.com
It has tutorials covering php, javascript, html and just about everything in between.

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Graeme.
http://weather.gktnet.com/cumulus/index.htm

Brendan, it should and will be fun, believe me, I have been learning for the past 6-7 years and I am still learning something new almost on a daily basis...

As Graeme pointed out, there is a lot of information on the W3Schools web site - but I have found that having a good book beside me is even better as most technical books I have around not only provide the information but as well as some examples.

I have found the best way to learn PHP was to installed a server software package (as well as PHP) on one's computer - thus eliminating the need to upload to an online server whenever a modification is made to the code. On my 'development' (personal/working) computer, I have two server packages installed (although not running consecutively), the Abyss Web Server package and the XAMPP for Windows package.