Tides block stopped working

[Alexandros]

For some reason it is almost a week that Tides_1.2 block stopped working and in its place Data N/A is only shown. I checked the related url in https://www.tide-forecast.com to see if their server is down but their site is working fine for my chosen location. So I guess that the process of decoding and stripping their data in the php meteotemplate tidesBlock file should be amended to probably include any changes that tide-forecast might have done in their page.

Any help on above?

[hcorrin]

Hi
just checked mine and I have the same but a cache file is created but the data in it is different to an older file I have on a backup
I also notice the plugin is giving the same error probably for the same reason

[LOBWX]

Same here - Data N/A

[meteocaldas]

Same here Data N/A.
TidesCache.txt is beeing created and updated but it looks like they have redesigned their html page and parsing data from there is not giving any results because their html code is somewhat different now.
I have been trying to fix the issue but my knowledge is too short for that and the result is always the same: no results
Help, pleaseeee!
I had never imagined that there were so many fishermen visiting my site just looking for local beach weather, tides and moons

http://www.meteocaldas.com/mtp

[stewart45]

Same here, been down for a week now

[Asobig]

I think i figured out what changed in the html of the Tide-forcast website:
Do the following:

In tidesBlock.php change line 55 from:

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preg_match('/<h1 class="tab">Tide Times for (.*?)<\/h1>/',$html,$matchesPlace);

to:

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preg_match('/<h1 class="title is-4 has-text-primary has-text-centered">Tide Times for (.*?)<\/h1>/',$html,$matchesPlace);

Change line 71 from:

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preg_match('/\<section class="tide-events not_in_print"\>(.*)?\<\/section\>/',$html,$matches);

to:

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preg_match('/\<section class="section tides-content-table tide-events not_in_print is-imperial" >(.*)?\<\/section\>/',$html,$matches);

Change line 80 from:

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$explodeDays = explode('<td class="date"',$predictionDiv);

to:

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$explodeDays = explode('<th class="date "',$predictionDiv);

Change line 84 from:

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preg_match('/rowspan="[0-9]">(.*?)<\/td>(.*?)$/',$explodeDays[$i],$matches);

to:

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preg_match('/rowspan="[0-9]" >(.*?)<\/th>(.*?)$/',$explodeDays[$i],$matches);

Then the block is working again.

[John B]

Thanks, Asobig, there's a bucket of salt water heading your way.

It surely works for me.

Regards,
John

[stewart45]

well done that man

[xl1954]

Hello all

After the correction from Absoblg, all is running.

Thanks a lot

[Gus]

Followed Absobig's instructions and all is well. Had to make one change in line 71.
I had to change new line 71 from tide-events not_in_print is-imperial to tide-events not_in_print is-metric. This dependings what https://www.tide-forecast.com does not show as height, meters or feet.

preg_match('/\<section class="section tides-content-table tide-events not_in_print is-imperial" >(.*)?\<\/section\>/',$html,$matches);
- OR -
preg_match('/\<section class="section tides-content-table tide-events not_in_print is-metric" >(.*)?\<\/section\>/',$html,$matches);

Tide plugin can also be fixed by applying changes to ...
line 69
line 85
line 94
line 98
https://www.halethorpeweather.com/meteo ... /index.php

Thanks,
Gus

[meteocaldas]

I think i figured out what changed in the html of the Tide-forcast website:
Do the following:.....
Then the block is working again.

Hi Asobig,
Thank you sooooo much!
Tide block is working perfectly again, and now all the fishermen in my area will be thanking you too

http://www.meteocaldas.com/mtp

[LOBWX]

For the life of me I can't get this block to work again? I installed the 1.3 block that was just updated in the blocks section http://www.meteotemplate.com/web/blocks.php

The block is caching the data from https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations ... des/latest

Im stumped???

[BlueBear]

In case you hadn't noticed, your tide plugin isn't working either!!!
Neither is mine

[LOBWX]

I tried what Gus had posted but still the Block nor the Plugin are working

[Alexandros]

All is fine again. Asobig, thank you for your effort and especially your time.

[dtwrlewis]

This worked for me

Thanks

Followed Absobig's instructions and all is well. Had to make one change in line 71.
I had to change new line 71 from tide-events not_in_print is-imperial to tide-events not_in_print is-metric. This dependings what https://www.tide-forecast.com does not show as height, meters or feet.

preg_match('/\<section class="section tides-content-table tide-events not_in_print is-imperial" >(.*)?\<\/section\>/',$html,$matches);
- OR -
preg_match('/\<section class="section tides-content-table tide-events not_in_print is-metric" >(.*)?\<\/section\>/',$html,$matches);

Tide plugin can also be fixed by applying changes to ...
line 69
line 85
line 94
line 98
https://www.halethorpeweather.com/meteo ... /index.php

Thanks,
Gus

[LOBWX]

So I have tried to get this Tides Block to work again on two different servers with absolutely no luck. One is my paid hosted server and the other is on my PI3B+.

If someone would not mind posting their entire working tidesBlock.php here so I could try using it to rule out any syntax errors on my part. I would appreciate it.

Nevermind I got it to work again

~Bob~

[hcorrin]

the block is working ok for me after the update, but when I tried the changes in the plugin, the page loads but no graph or data is showing and if metric is used instead of imperial I get data N/A

http://www.hc-iom.co.uk/template/plugin ... /index.php

[dtwrlewis]

Data not available again.

Have they changed their formatting again?Anyone else having this problem?

[John B]

All fine here (Thu. 2018-12-06 22:30 UTC).

[livejerseyweather]

I think the formatting has changed again as all appears to be offline. Any ideas anyone?

[stewart45]

same problem here