phpBuoy

Sample phpBuoy output:
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Station 46053 - East Santa Barbara Channel Buoy

Conditions As Of:6:50PM, 09-03-2010
Wind Direction:W (270º)
Wind Speed:11.7 kts.
Gust Speed:15.5 kts.
Wave Height:3 ft.
Swell Period:8 sec.
Air Temperature:55.8ºF
Water Temperature:60.1ºF
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phpBuoy is a simple little PHP script which parses the realtime buoy data provided by the National Data Buoy Center and presents it in a nicely formatted HTML table. It's quite easy to use as a PHP or SSI include and can get data for any buoy listed on the NDBC site.

phpBuoy comes with complete customization instructions within the file, including the ability to display wind and temperature data in either metric or English units, select from 12 or 24 hour time display, and choose from American MM-DD-YYYY or International DD-MM-YYYY date formats.

phpBuoy should run on any PHP-enabled webserver that has access to a writable directory (it caches the buoy data so as not to overload the NDBC servers).

phpBuoy is released under the Gnu General Public License and is completely free to download, use and modify, provided that appropriate credit is given where it's due.

phpBuoy is pretty useful! A number of people from all around the world have contacted me to let me know what they're doing with the script. If you get a chance to use it, I'd love to hear about it.

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Changelog:
August 6, 2007 - 1.0.4Fixed formatting error caused by new double header lines in NOAA data files.
 
July 25, 2006 - 1.0.3Fixed link to NOAA realtime HTTP data source to reflect new "../realtime2/" address.
 
May 28, 2003 - 1.0.2Changed display of expected but temporarily unavailable data so that it is presented more gracefully.
 
February 19, 2003 - 1.0.1Fixed conversion of wind direction degress to compass points to make it more accurate ;)
 
February 8, 2003 - 1.0.0Initial release of phpBuoy

phpBuoy was created by Steve Lange of Santa Barbara Surf Implement