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          I am trying to import the GET WEATHER macro using the SQL commands.  The directions I'm following seem clear enough but I'm not getting the same results.  This is the text I'm running from (from http://www.diy-ha.com/infofrominternet.php)
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 "First, before reading any further, load Powerhome, go to the Multi Editor, set it to SQL, and paste in the contents of this file[see file below]. Then, create a Global Variable called CURTEMP
 
 This will set up the basic structure that you need to grab data. It should create a macro called Test. Go into Powerhome Explorer and load this macro."
 
 The file they had me download was:
 "insert into macroheader values ('TEST','TEST',0,0,1);
 insert into macrodetail values ('TEST',1,15,'[LOCAL1]',NULL,'ph_geturl(  "mobile.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?bra nd=mobile&query=19004")',0,'');
 insert into macrodetail values ('TEST',2,15,'[LOCAL1]',NULL,'ph_readfile ( "C:\Program Files\powerhome\wum.htm" )',1,'');
 insert into macrodetail values ('TEST',3,38,'',1,'ph_writefile ( "C:\Program Files\powerhome\wum.htm", 1, "[LOCAL1]" )',1,'');
 insert into macrodetail values  ('TEST',4,10,'CURTEMP',NULL,'ph_regexsnap(''<tr><td >Temperature</td>~255<b>\(.+\)</b>° ;F'',"[LOCAL1]",1,0)',0,''); "
 
 I don't see any macro called TEST creating itself when I make the global variable CURTEMP.  Can someone please help me with this?  I'm sure it is a small error that I'm missing like not clicking apply or something like that.
 
 Thank you.
 
 
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        | TonyNo Moderator Group
 
  
  
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          Whose site is that?! At least they give me credit!
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 The TEST macro will appear when you paste in that text into the SQL editor and execute it.
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        | kemaa Newbie
 
  
 
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          Thanks, I was able to get the macro to load.  When I ran it I had nothing happen.  I created the global variable CURTEMP and I see the wun.htm file (which is blank).  Is there something else that I need to do to get this to work?
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        | kemaa Newbie
 
  
 
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          From reading a little bit on the help menu it says that the geturl function uses the proxy server set up in Setup.  I haven't changed this from its default settings.  I don't opperate my machine on a proxy (that I know of).  Would this have anything to do with my lack of data coming back?
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          No, if you don't have a proxy, you should be fine.
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 So, you now have the TEST macro if you click on Macros in the PH Explorer?
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        | kemaa Newbie
 
  
 
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          Yes.  When I select that macro from the Macro/Formula dropdown box and click run it creates the wun.htm file but it is blank and the value of CURTEMP is still blank.
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          kemaa,
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 If the second line of the TEST macro is:
 Set System     [LOCAL1]       ph_readfile ( "C:\Program Files\powerhome\wum.htm" )
 
 
 Click the Skip box on that line and then run the macro.  When I run it with that line skipped it works fine.  If that line executes, wun.htm is blank.
 
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          Wow! That line was in there for testing. I guess I forgot to check Skip when I exported! Sorry!
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          Tony,
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 It is checked on yours.  The one he mentions above is here: http://www.diy-ha.com/GetWeatherSimplified.txt
 
 It is skipped there too, but on the tutorial page they have a screen shot that doesn't show the Skip box.  And this: "Lines 2-3 in the macro write a local file--you shouldn't have to bother editing this."
 
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          Ah, ok!
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        | kemaa Newbie
 
  
 
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          I'm still having some problems but I'm narrowing down the cause.  When I run formula checker on the formulas for each line, the formula evaluates to:
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 Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:07:42 GMT
 Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.4.0
 Connection: close
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
 <HTML><HEAD>
 <TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
 </HEAD><BODY>
 <H1>Bad Request</H1>
 Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
 The request line contained invalid characters following the protocol string.<P>
 <P>
 <HR>
 <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at l3a10.wunderground.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
 </BODY></HTML>
 
 
 I tried playing around with the address (adding a http:// at the front of the address just in case but still no luck.  I'm certain that my problem is stemming from the lack of web page results.  I can load the page no problem in my browser so I'm figuring something is wrong with the call.
 
 Thank you for your help so far.  If I can get this to work I'll definately start to run with this quickly.
 
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          You are using this?
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 ph_geturl(  "mobile.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?bra nd=mobile&query=ZIP")
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          I've noticed that somehow spaces were inserted into the code from the import.  I fixed two different pieces already.  There was a break that I can see in your post as well. (brand=mobile  not bra nd=mobile).  I have been playing around with the formula for ph_regexsnap.  I changed it because I couldn't find the ~255 anywhere in the returned text.  This is now my formula:
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 ph_regexsnap('<tr><td>Temperature</td>
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 <span class="nowrap"><b>\(.+\)</b>°F,"[LOCAL1]",1,0)
 
 This returns a ! into CURTEMP, which is a step in the right direction because I'm getting a return value finally.  According to what I've been reading in the help file, I should have picked out the right portion of the string to grab.
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          Yup, the board here adds spaces frequently.
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 The ~255 is regex for "skip stuff". This is what it should be...
 
 ph_regexsnap('<tr><td>Temperature</td>~255 <b>\(.+\)</b>°F'," [LOCAL1]",1,0)
 
 Delete any spaces.
 
 An "!" means that the formula has an error.
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        | kemaa Newbie
 
  
 
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          Back to no return value.  Do I need to include the & #176; (without the space) or just °.  They seem to equal the same thing.  I wrote it in my code as the first one but when I posted it online it was converted to the degree symbol.  Does the search string need to look like the html code it is parsing through or can it be some of the visual results instead?
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          Dangit. The board changed the & #176; to a degree symbol. Yes, it should look just like the HTML code.
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 Browse to that page, view the source of the page, then search for that first section (<tr><td>Temperature</td>) and make sure it's even in there. Your ZIP may be getting different code.
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          I finally got it to work.  Thanks a bunch! I'll be playing around with this now that I know it can work for me.
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