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Z Weather Version 6 Beta 2 Released |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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A problem has been found in the initial version 6 release of Z Weather that occurs with sites running PHP 4. If you have a site running PHP 4, please upgrade to the latest release, version 6 beta 2. PHP 5 sites are unaffected by this issue.
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Version 6 of Z Weather is Now Available |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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The sixth major release of Z Weather (version 6 beta 1) is now available for download by clicking here. Highlights of this release include:
- Both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 releases are supported. To use Z Weather with Joomla 1.5, enable legacy mode first before installing.
- It is now much easier to add a new location. An AJAX enabled zip code to latitude/longitude converter and lookups for observation and alert county have been added, allowing one to create a new location in a matter of seconds.
- 3, 12 and 24 hour forecasts can now be displayed. You can now show the weather forecast in 3 hour increments with the new 3 hour forecast mode, ideal when showing a short term weather forecast. This version allows any of these forecast modes to be displayed on the site. Previous versions allowed only 12 or 24 hour forecasts to be selected for the entire site.
- Z Content news is now displayed directly on the Z Weather administration page.
- This is the first release that will notify you (from the Z Weather administrator screen) if a newer version of Z Weather is available.
Version 6 of the Z Weather component and module are now available. The cronjob feature of Z Weather is not yet available for this release.
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Beta 5 Version of Z Weather is Now Available |
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Thursday, 20 July 2006 |
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The 5th release of Z Weather is now available for download by clicking here. Highlights of this release include:
New precipitation icons by NWS are now bundled with application
As new weather icons are discovered, they are automatically downloaded to the local icon cache
New button on administration screen, "Refresh Cache", allows manual refresh of Z Weather XML and HTML data from the administrator screen and can also serve as a connectivity test to NWS
Current weather forecast icon can now be displayed in the administrator screen (use settings screen to enable)
Added barometric pressure to current conditions
Cron job now controllable through administrator settings
Alert page HTML is now cached
All active alerts for a location are now displayed. In previous versions, only the first active alert was displayed.
Overlib feature now supports multiple locations
Multiple locations can now optionally be displayed side by side (horizontally)
Improved reliability when NWS server is unavailable
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 March 2007 )
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NWS Changes Weather Icons |
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Monday, 26 June 2006 |
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The National Weather Service (NWS) changed their icons on June 26th to include precipitation icons. This affects Z Weather if you are running Beta 4 or earlier version and have Z Weather's icon caching enabled. If you have the icon cache enabled for Z Weather and are seeing red "X"'s on your page, here are a couple of ways to fix the problem:
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 July 2006 )
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