Formatted bulletin board??
I want to create a bulletin board that will allow users to input their local road/weather info and view others input in a table like:
"denver, whiteout, Bob, 4:30pm
Boulder, mild, Bill, 4:45pm"
The main feature Im lookin for is for the message text for all messages to be formatted and immediately visible, no clicking on titles
Any ideas on a script or utility to help?
Thanks
Peter
ROB posted this at 03:56 — 31st July 2000.
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Joined: Oct 1999
i have seen weather sites and i know what your talking about, how you can enter a zip code or whatever and get the current whether. How you would pull that info im not sure, you could maybe fetch and rip such a page when the user posts. It would only be current at the time they posted though, unless you want to fetch the weather for every post every time the page is loaded, which would drastically slow down your board.
Anyway, thats the approach i would take, whether or not there are better ways i dont know but i would assume so.
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