output errors

  • Using SnowReport 1.3….seeing the following error in HTML output:

    <!– Snow Report Error : Error reading XML file at and –>

    for each entry in my WP page all of which look like this (example):

    [snow_report location=”Vermont” mountain=”192,66,255,304″ caption=”” class=”mmssc_table_class” show_columns=”status,base,48hr,surface” showclosed=”yes” noresults=”No snow reports from this area right now.”]

    Is the XML file referenced my WP CSS file (where the CSS class ‘mmssc_table_class’ lives? Or is this XML file internal to the plugin?

    Thank you!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/snow-report/

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  • I’m having the same problem and not using a shortcode specific filters – just normal settings. Worked a couple of days ago and now it’s kaput.

    Thread Starter DavidMOliver

    (@davidmoliver)

    I did a bit more investigation on this, reading the plug-in code, and this error is generated when the request to onthesnow.com fails. The XML is the RSS-formatted data file returned, and if nothing is returned instead, this error happens. The error ends with “file at and” because the variables $url and $url2 are undefined within this PHP function (so, we can’t see the URL the plug-in tried to reach when it got the error).

    The implication of this is possibly that onthesnow.com is no longer offering their RSS feature. Can that be true?

    Thread Starter DavidMOliver

    (@davidmoliver)

    Received advice from OnTheSnow.com that their RSS feed is no longer operating, and to use their “widget” accessory. See:

    https://www.onthesnow.com/widget

    Also investigating several other sources of ski condition information such as:

    https://www.worldweatheronline.com/free-ski-weather-api.aspx

    https://www.myweather2.com/developer/apis.aspx?uref=f8add9ec-fe95-4001-b822-df8680e49dce

    https://opensnow.com/about/api

    I’d love to hear the developer’s thoughts on these…..

    David,
    I’d love to hear what you’ve found out. I’m the webmaster for the Oakland Ski Club and we relied heavily on this plugin.

    Thread Starter DavidMOliver

    (@davidmoliver)

    @aoklandskiclub, I haven’t heard from the developer of this plugin. Further, as above, the folks at OnTheSnow.com told me “the RSS feed is now locked” (whatever that means) and advised me to use the other approach: https://www.onthesnow.com/widget. When I experimented with this, I got errors (too many to make it acceptable to use). I wrote OnTheSnow.com for guidance.

    Personally, I am now looking at the other services, seeing if I can hack this plugin to talk to the MyWeather2 or WorldWeatherOnline. That’ll be a bit of a long slog, but it’s worth a try since I’ve got people depending on this plugin.

    @aoklandskiclub, @davidmoliver
    If any of you are still following this post and are interested I already wrote some snow specific api plug ins, all the data you can see on:
    https://thelocalsnow.com/treble-cone/
    is created via a shortcode per forecast/service.
    Please note that site is ‘un-attended’ outside of the ski season (june-oct in NZ) so likely very slow to load as won’t have cached versions of any data to use, all will be fetched in one hit if site’s not been visited for 24 hours.
    My contact information and a bit of background info is on the About page.
    Cheers

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