
Creating a Weather WML Page
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2. €Type your home page Web address. For example, type http://www.example.com.
3. €Select the Nokia and/or USA format check boxes.
Make sure the Use my own custom WAP file check box is not selected.
4. €Click Create WAP directory for first time.
5. €Click Test and then verify the WAP file (index.wml) is created in the webfiles folders.
6. €Enter a schedule for WAP uploads.
7. €Click on the red Off button so that it becomes green and the label changes to On.
8. €Click OK to save settings and return to the main Weather Display window.
Create custom WML files
Make sure the default .wml file is being created.
1. €Return to the WAP screen as described above.
2. €Select the Use my own Custom WAP file' check box.
3. €Use the index.wml file, located in the folder webfiles, as a starter. Rename the file
waplocal.txt.
Note•••Make sure you do not accidentlaly reaname the file as waplocal.txt.txt.
At the scheduled times, this file will be read and a new index.wml created using that
format as a guide.
Replace actual weather conditions numbers with a custom tag. If you want to add other
information, add an appropriate label and its custom tag. ("indoor temperature:
%indoorhum%).
More information about using custom tags can be found on the → Using Custom Tags page.
A simple WAP page might look like the following:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC '-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN'
'http://www.weather-display.de/DTD/wml_1.1.xml'>
<wml>
<head>
</head>
<card id="Weather-Display" title="Weather-Display">
<p>
CURRENT WEATHER REPORT FROM: LaddRd<br/>
6:23:57 PM 12/25/2002<br/>
Temperature: %temp%<br/>
Windspeed: %avgspd%<br/>
Gustspeed: %gstspd%<br/>
Direction: %dirlabel% %dirdeg%<br/>
Barometer: %baro%<br/>
Humidity: %hum% percent<br/>
Dew point: %dew%<br/>
Today's rain: %dayrn%<br/>
Maximum temperature: %maxtemp% at %maxtempt%<br/>
Minimum temperature: %mintemp% at %mintempt%<br/>
Maximum gust today: %maxgst% at %maxgstt%<br/>
%time% %date%<br/>
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