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S5 Weather Version 2

Details: Category: Frontpage; Published on Friday, 13 July 2012 22:16; Written by Super User; Hits: 9792

The S5 Weather Module v2 pulls XML data from Yahoo.com and displays the weather for the current day and the upcoming 2 days along with images depicting the type weather. You can enter a zip code in the administration side and also switch between celsius and fahrenheit.

Features:

Enter ZIP code via admin side
Choose celsius or fahrenheit
Pulls weather data from Yahoo weather

For those of you living outside the US, please complete the following steps :

1. Drill down to your location on Yahoo Maps http://weather.yahoo.com/
2. Look at the address bar (If you live in Melbourne, Australia it looks like this: http://ther.yahoo.com/Melbourne-Australia/ASXX0075/forecast.html?unit=c)
3. Copy the region/area code found in the above URL (ASXX0075)
4. Next open up the weather.class.php file (../modules/mod_s5_weather) and search for the the word: 'location' (there are two instances) and replace with the code that you have just copied from Yahoo, save and close.
5. In the Admin area of the weather module simply paste the Yahoo region code into the zip code box (in this scenario: ASXX0075)

S5 Weather module screenshot as featured on the homepage:

S5 Weather module admin area screenshot:

S5 Quick Contact

Details: Category: Frontpage; Published on Friday, 13 July 2012 22:12; Written by Super User; Hits: 4397

The S5 Quick Contact module is a simple way for your visitors to get in contact with you, it is demo'd on the homepage of this design. Sometimes full contact pages are just too much. If you're looking for an easy way to stay in contact with your visitors this module is for you. This module has fully configurable language settings, sends emails to a specified admin account, three ways of spam protection and much more! And of course it's free!

Please note - This module uses the php mail() function. If you are not receiving emails this is a security setting on your server or a spam filter issue. Please contact your hosting provider to resolve this issue. In most cases there will be no issue at all.

Features:

Specify text of error message and field names
Specify height of text area
Set width of all boxes
Validates email address
Include intro text if desired
Set one admin email to receive all emails
3 forms of spam protection:
1. Checks headers for malicious attacks
2. Uses hidden field for spam alert
3. No direct access to file allowed

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The Vertex 2 Framework

Details: Category: Frontpage; Published on Saturday, 09 June 2012 03:17; Written by Super User; Hits: 14078

We are very excited and very proud to bring to you the new and improved Vertex 2 template framework! You can upgrade your existing V1 templates today with an easy to use patch file here.