Adding Lightning tracker

[stuee]

thanks dave. iknow that, i just made the menus with the layout line from the file you said look at, im changing today.

[dmgould]

No problem. I thought you probably were using what I posted and working through the changes.

[stuee]

yep its getting easier the more i work on it.

Can you help me getting my webcam working though?
can you run me though exactly how? i made the cron job but the problem is getting the images from my ip camera.

[dmgould]

My camera has an ftp function available in the menu. It sends a picture to my server every 5 minutes.

[wxthomson]

Steve if you want to place ads on your page too, Ive had enough of this to be quite honest, I dont care any more

I don't want ads on my site. I think it cheapens it.

In a previous thread this was discussed in detail and you stated it violates a number of agreements.

Several people suggested we point out those who do.

That was my intent.

[Jachym]

Yes I understand that. I myself will also not place any ads on my webpage.

However, as I also stated later on in that thread, I no longer care. If people want to, so be it, but it is their responsibility. I dont think anyone will ever get in any troubles, it is more like my personal moral issue I have with doing this.

Bottomline... are ads ok in MT? WIth me yes, I dont care anymore. With regards to other libraries used by the template? Sort of in the grey zone, depends on how you use your website probably.

[Fraggboy]

Jachym,

Thought.. When someone asks for assistance, pull up their webpage. Verify if they are following the TOS. If they don't, assist them. If they do, tell them to hit the road..

[Jachym]

Jachym,

Thought.. When someone asks for assistance, pull up their webpage. Verify if they are following the TOS. If they don't, assist them. If they do, tell them to hit the road..

Yes, that definitely is an idea, in case someone violated the TOC (i.e. for example deleted the footer, changed copyright etc.) I would do it, and in fact I would take a slightly more aggressive approach, there are ways..., however, with regards to placing ads on your page - as long as people are not directly selling the script, any of its part, not re-distributing it themselves and these ads serve purely to fund THEIR OWN website, I will not consider it a breach of TOC

[stuee]

Good idea fragboy.
Jachym you could even charge them to help as thats classed as design work and your not selling anything.
If they are making money from "you" then why cant you charge them.

I would strongly consider a forced donation for people to download MT, $10 or more, 2 coffees cost more than that!

Your not selling MT as such your charging to cover the time and server costs, thats not against the free condition of the graph scripts you mentioned.

Again just a thought, You have put in lots of time and effort into this i can see and great customer support too along with extensive hosting that you provide to us all FREE!

[Fraggboy]

Stuee.

I like your idea also. Charge for the download and donations are appreciated if they are helped in the forums.

You are doing this as a hobby, but your time is still valuable. I will gladly pay you for your hard work.

Sorry for seriously derailing this thread. . But... YOU deserve much more than donations from the amount of time you use to support the members

[LOBWX]

I went and looked at your site in /meteo and clicked 'Lightning Tracker' on your menu. You are pointing to the page StormVueNG.html in the other weather site. For it to work inside of MT with the header and menu and all, you are going to have to point it to a new page in the /custom directory in MT. I would start with a copy of blank.php in that /custom directory named something else like lightning.php. It will have the header, footer, and menu. Point the menu item Lightning Tracker to that new page. After that menu link opens the new page correctly you will next have to figure out how to copy that flash object into that new page. For a start you could just copy the whole html code from StormVueNG.html into lightning.php below the header - I use Notepad++. Then upload lightning.php back to the /custom directory and test it. You probably want it to end up looking about like it does on the other weather site in the center of the page, and similar to how your radar page looks only with the single flash object.

I know some html works embedded in php, but I am just getting the hang of php so I don't know if it will work in this case. Maybe.

Thank you for this tidbit if information. Just what I was looking for.