This module makes use of the Google Weather API to display the current temperature, weather condition and a four-day weather forecast, as you can see on the left of the page.

This is the first, and currently the only weather module with the following features:

• Uses the Google Weather API that provides 4-day weather forecast with images.
• Allows user to interactively enter zip codes (for US, UK and Canada) and city names.
• Displays the weather information in many different languages, as provided by Google.
• Allows you to display two or more weather modules in the same page.
• Supports both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5!
• You can turn on or off the input field.
• You can specify the default unit for the temperature (in °C or °F)
• You can switch between °C or °F interactively with no reloading of pages.

• I've implemented the Google Weather Mashup with the use of PHP's cURL library. So please make sure your PHP has the cURL library installed in order to use this module.
• Note that this module works only with PHP5 and above because of the use of the PHP function simplexml_load_string which is only available starting with PHP5.

You can see some live demos below:

• Google Weather module demo #1: shows the weather forecast for 4 different cities in 4 different languages.
• Google Weather module demo #2: you can show or hide the input field for each of the module.

You may not edit or remove any copyright or Powered by statements in the Google Weather Module.

However, if you find the module useful and would like to use the module without the "Powered-by" links, you may do so by purchasing a "Powered-by" removal license for only USD $10 per site.

Secured payment is processed by 2checkout.com. All major credit cards are accepted, including Visa, Mastercard and American Express, etc. You can also pay by PayPal. Once the transaction is completed, you will be given a link to download the registered version with the "Powered by" links removed.

1. First, make sure you're using PHP5 and above.
2. Then, make sure your PHP has the cURL library installed. You can do a quick check by doing a simple

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

If your PHP has the cURL library installed, you should see something similar to the following:



If you don't have the cURL library, there are numerous resources on the Internet that gives you very clear instructions on how to install cURL on various platform such as windows, linux, etc.

3. Download and install the "Google Weather Module".
4. Make sure the module is published / enabled.
5. Select a module position where you want to place the module.

That's it! You should now see the Google Weather module displayed in the module position you've specified.

You can set the following in the Parameters page:

1. Default City: This is the city that will be displayed when the module is first loaded. For large cities, you can just enter the city name e.g. San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Moscow, without the need to enter the country name.

For some countries (e.g. US, UK and Canada), you can just enter the zip code. E.g. '94305', 'W1A 1AZ'.

2. Language: Google supported language code in ISO 639-1 format
   e.g. English is en, French is fr, Italian is it, Japanese is ja, Chinese simplified is zh-cn, Chinese Traditional is zh-tw.
3. Unit for temperature: Choose between displaying the temperature in °F or °C.
4. Hide Input Field: If all you want is to display the weather forecast of a particular city, and DO NOT want the user to change that, you can select 'Yes' to hide the input field.
5. Hide Humidity: Select 'Yes' if you wish to hide the humidity information.
6. Hide Wind: Select 'Yes' if you wish to hide the wind information.
7. Hide Forecast: Select 'Yes' if you wish to hide the 4-day weather forecast.
8. Label for 'City': This is the label that is displayed just before the input field. The default label is 'City'. You can change the label into your own language and label.
9. ize of Input Field: Size of the input field. Default size is 12.
10. Request Interval: If you do some research on google, you will see that there arer cases where Google will "ban" your site from accessing the Google Weather API if the request is made too often (e.g. some sites try to get the weather forecast of all cities in US through a robot). By default, I set a interval 3 seconds between each request to Google. This will prevent your users from making too frequent weather forecast requests via your website. If you are not concerned about this, you can reduce this to 1 second.

The entire formatting of the stock quotes is done using CSS. If you do not like the default look and feel of the stock data, you can edit the following CSS file:

<your joomla root folder>/modules/mod_googleWeather/mod_googleWeather.css

1. Input Field (for entering city name)

div.googleWeather input {
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}

2. Input Label (the label 'City')

div.googleWeather .input_label {
	font-weight:bold;
}

3. The current temepature

div.googleWeather .deg {
    font-size: 100%;
	color: #3366FF;
	font-weight:bold;
}

4. The image of the current weather condition

div.googleWeather .img2 {
	float: right;
}

5. The current weather condition

div.googleWeather .cond {
	font-size: 100%;
}

6. The current wind condition

div.googleWeather .wind {
    font-size: 100%;
}

History

1. v1.0.1 (for Joomla 1.0) and v1.5.1 (for Joomla 1.5)
   Released October 6, 2009

Streamlined the javascript codes.

User reviews   Average user ratings:    4.5   (from 8 users)

1. Testa
   December 09, 2009 11:56pm
   
   

2. Doug
   January 20, 2010 12:37am
   Perfect
   

   This mod is so simple, so perfect. Once request, on a future update(unless I'm blind and it's here already), the ability to change the place holder pop-up. I'm building a website in the polish language and it used the google language code pl to change everything but the place holder.(I think that's what it is) It says 'change your city...yada yada yada in English but everything else is in Polish.
   
   Thanks again
   Malaczarna

3. kksou
   January 20, 2010 8:16am
   
   

   Hi Doug,
   
   Please download the latest version: v1.5.2.
   
   Go to module manager, edit the Google Weather module, and you can now change the popup string to your language in the last 3 fields.
   
   Regards,
   /kksou

4. Doug
   January 20, 2010 10:36am
   Amazing
   

   I haven't even d/l'd the new version and I can comment on this...Great!! You also fixed the other concern I was going to mention...The showing of the default city. Nice work again. Thanks

5. Doug
   January 20, 2010 11:01am
   And for ease of use...
   

   I've uninstalled, downloaded, installed and set up the new vision since writing my last comment...That will tell you just how smooth it is.
   
   Doug
   
   Well..it only took 4 minutes but I had to wait 6 more minutes before I could post this...lol

6. davide
   January 23, 2010 8:49am
   not work on my site
   

   Excuse me but does not work on my site, is the circle of research but does not load.
   PHP Version 5.2.12

7. kksou
   January 23, 2010 8:12pm
   
   

   Hi,
   
   You need to give more details to allow other people to help you.
   
   Is the cURL library installed in your PHP?
   
   Regards,
   /kksou

8. vtpages
   January 31, 2010 7:21pm
   Also getting the endless spinning circle
   

   cUrl is enabled, information is libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5 - site is nemowaterproofing.com. Would really like to be able to use this module, if anyone can help. Thanks.

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