Error Message Help

[Judboy]

Error Description:

Missing XOAP 'link' parameter in request.
Error Code: 14

Note: This error just appeared this morning on both of my sites. Everything has been working great before today. Is this on the Weather Channels end? I am using version 1.1.0 on both sites.

Is it the new &link=xoap deal? If so, how do I fix it?

[Bob]

Hi Judboy,

Version 1.10 I think needs a fix for the "&link=xoap" if I remember correctly (I don't work with 1.10 much). Let me check William Bell's site... Here are the notes from William's site:

Fix For eWeather "XML Call"
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At line 50, in "/components/com_eweather/eweather.main.php", you will see the following line:

$weather_url = "http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/".$weatherDefaultLocationID."?cc=*&dayf=".$weatherDayForecast."&unit=".$weatherUnits."&par=".$weatherPartnerID."&key=".$weatherPassword.;



Find the part of that line that looks like this:

.$weatherUnits."&par=".$weatherPartnerID.



Add the following, just before the '&' in that line:

&link=xoap&prod=xoap



Your PARTIAL line should look like this:

.$weatherUnits."&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=".$weatherPartnerID.



Your FULL line should look like this:

$weather_url = "http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/".$weatherDefaultLocationID."?cc=*&dayf=".$weatherDayForecast."&unit=".$weatherUnits."&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=".$weatherPartnerID."&key=".$weatherPassword.;



Now, at line 111, you will need to do the same steps above.

Please let me know if that doesn't work for you.

Thanks,
Bob

[Judboy]

Thanks, it works!!

[Bob]

Super! I'm glad i was able to help.

Bob

[drystonewall]

Hi Bob.

Thanks for this, but I tried this (having worked out what the missing bits were). With this solution (which does indeed resolve the XML) the 5/10 day forecast now fails to show in the component. Any more help would be appreciated.

[TinkyWinky]

Same here, now works but I only have current weather, not 5/10 days forecast: http://blokovi.com/vremenska-prognoza/index.php

[Bob]

Real quick... Do you have your forecast days set to 5 or 10? Try 5, if you haven't already. I'll poke around and see if I can figure anything out.

Thanks,
Bob

[Bob]

Ah, also from William Bell:

The issue with the 10-day forecast not showing is different than the link issue.

To correct the "Forecast Not Showing" issue, please review the following text file:

http://www.sages.us/belwi/iconpacks/Fix ... howing.txt

I hope that helps.

Thanks,
Bob

[drystonewall]

Thank you Bob.

Yes, both 5 & 10 day settings make no difference. The issue here is that things were fine up and until this morning when, by the look of things, TWC decided to change their URL string by including "Link" and "Prod" Not including "Prod" by the way invokes an Error Code 12 (whereas a missing "Link" invokes the Error Code 14).

So, the TWC format has changed? Eweather version 1.1.0 had been working fine until today. So I am a little perplexed to find answers to a problem, which (as far as I can see) only happened today. Very strange. I am inclined to simply install the newest (Joomla 1.0.x) version and to have done with it. Can you confirm that no such issues exist with the latest versions?

Many thanks.

[Bob]

I think eWeather 1.1.0 is the latest version supported on Joomla 1.0.x. All of the eWeather 1.3.x versions are ones that I've worked on, and I ported eWeather 1.3.0 from eWeather 1.1.0 with the only difference being 1.3.0 would run on Joomla 1.5.x in Native mode. I didn't try to make eWeather 1.3.x compatible with Joomla 1.0.x. I don't know that it's not compatible with Joomla 1.0.x, but I didn't do any testing of that configuration.

I am pretty sure I've got this all fixed in eWeather 1.3.x, since I'm not getting complaints from users of that revision. The only suggestion I have for someone running Joomla 1.0.x is to go through the review discussions at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/external-contents/weather/3731/details to see if your question is addressed.

I understand your frustration, and I'll be happy to help you get 1.10 working.

Thanks,
Bob