More tinkering
- April 23, 2002
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I’m working on getting a new feature ready. I read on scriptygoddess how someone set up their blog to allow people to email a copy of certain posts to friends. Kind of like Yahoo’s “Email This Story” feature. I didn’t read how they pulled it off because I wanted to see if I could do it myself. Well, I figured out how to do it, but there’s no design behind it yet. If I put it in now, it’d look ugly. I need to design a little icon for the posts and some nice graphics for the form page itself. Then I need to write the PHP script that will handle the form. But, it’s a snap actually to get it up and running.
I also had to change out the weather script. I was originally using a PHP script that pulled weather information from the Weather Underground. For some reason, this script would suddenly go into an infinite loop and constantly download information. This would use up HUGE amounts of bandwidth. I had it running on another site I had made for a client, and in 2 weeks time, it had created over 110 GB of traffic!! The limit for their service was 15 GB in 1 month. They shut down the account because it was about to crash their server! I figured out it was the weather script by looking at the error logs.
I looked for another script and chose one from Nuno CRUCES. This pulls its weather data from NOAA. It didn’t support pictures, so I modified it so I could use my old weather pics and convert metric measurements to imperial. Overall, you can’t really tell I changed the script, which is good.
I’m beginning to wonder if I will ever stop finding little things to improve here or there.