IDEA for New Plugin: Aurora Forecast

[acatalano]

I am very impressed by the number of plugins that are available in Meteo covering space & earth sciences. One addition to the great lineup would be an Aurora Borealis Forecast. There is one available from NOAA showing a good map from directly above the north pole of the hemisphere here: http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/an ... latest.jpg which appears to be updated regularly. There is one available for Iceland too from there amazing weather service: http://en.vedur.is/weather/forecasts/aurora/, but that may be of less interest globally. Another is for Alaska only here: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast

I was thing of hacking some php code from an existing plugin (likely a painful exercise) as I don't see a "blank" plugin.

Any thoughts or interest?

[BlueBear]

You mean like this:

http://www.sanfordweather.com//meteo/cu ... AuroraPage

There is a blank that's what I used as the base, called "Page Builder"

[acatalano]

Yes indeed that does it! Did you do this yourself or did I miss it among the plugins? I have another site (www.boulderwx.com) that uses the Saratoga templates and I was going to construct an Aurora page for that today.

[BlueBear]

Did it myself, look in your admin section for Page Builder, not at all difficult to do!

[acatalano]

I didn't realize it was possible to set up a custom page. Got it now: http://www.boulderweather.org/template/ ... age=aurora

[acatalano]

One question though...is there some way to see the icons (used in the menu under the tab) within the control panel? The various icons are in the icon folder but looking at them from within the webhosting control panel shows a difficult to recognize image. I used an image file instead.

[Dehatter]

One question though...is there some way to see the icons

Note that most of the .pngs in the icon folder are not actually icons. The biggest source of icons built into the template are the Awesome fonts. A list of them is here: https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery

Note: The Pro fonts are not included, but the standard ones are.

The template syntax for using an Awesome font is: fa fa-nameogicon (example: fa fa-camera). This is in the Wiki under customization.

There is also a set of mticons but there is not a list of them, or what they look like, I had to dig hard to find them.

Tom

[Jachym]

There is a list of them Tom.

Go to Control panel -> Menu setup -> then there is a link that goes to the page with the icons.

[Dehatter]

Well I have to admit I never noticed the that little link, but I got this when I clicked it:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=23) state=0 in /homepages/5/d717902257/htdocs/template/admin/menu/menuIcons.php on line 51

Parse error: in /homepages/5/d717902257/htdocs/template/admin/menu/menuIcons.php on line 51

Just so your know.

Tom

[BlueBear]

Both links work fine here!!!
Forgot how many icons are available, must look for some unique ones

[acatalano]

Found the link to the icons in the text of the page describing new tab with three data blocks to fill in. Maybe just my choice of font but it was difficult to locate. Works great though. Nothing for Aurora seems quite right so I'll stay with images for now. I've put up both Northern & Southern hemisphere forecasts.