Hi,

I have a weather station at home that's collecting data into a text file. I'm basically wondering how to take the format it's giving me, and put it into an HTML webpage. The text file looks like this:

[weather_tendency]
comment_1 = "-1=not valid, 0=no change of air pressure"
comment_2 = " 1=air pressure rising, 2=air pressure falling"
number = 0

[indoor_temperature]
deg_C = "24.2"
deg_F = "75.5"

[outdoor_temperature]
deg_C = "22.3"
deg_F = "72.1"

I don't even know if that's a language. I'm hoping it's XML since you can embed it into HTML, but I don't think it is. I'm running Debian Etch with PHP 5.1 and Apache2, perhaps there is a way to parse this data out the "hard way"?

Thanks for any help!

A simple shell script can do this for you.

The result would be below:
From then on, you can use awk/sed to grab only the temperature readings and save that to a variable. Then you can format the html to whatever you want. And, do the same thing with "outdoor_temperature".

-twantrd