Gallery: After effects & Cleanup
Hi Everyone who’s been searching for more information thanks to the near complete blackout of news info (for some odd reason :P)
First up I thought I’d answer some of the questions left in the comments of the previous post
The water never rose above 18.1m, however, most of the photos in the previous gallery were taken before the water peaked. There are some homes that seem to have just escaped in that gallery, However the water rose a bit more, I spent the morning at a friend of the families down near the river, About a foot of water filled the house, Most items left on the floor or near are water damaged, Most of the time was spent removing wet items from the floor and pulling up carpet, Bit distressing for the kids bedroom having to decide what had to be thrown out because of the damage.
Sorry for the lack of description and location on the older photos, I only had time to install the Gallery software and post the images, I’d have liked to give a good location for where each shot was taken from, I’ve added some descriptions. Also, The cameras date/time was incorrect, so the dates shown were out by a few years.
The local Plant Nursery has a few photos and a short video up as well: http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/…
There is some information and photos available on the 1954 flood here: http://www.kyogleweb.com.au/54flood/index.htm
To my knowledge there hasn’t been any confirmed reports of loss of life, However, There was 2nd hand information that the choppers in the air were looking for 3 boys who jumped off the Bridge into the water, I’ve not seen any news reports about that however, so unable to confirm.
The water from Town has since been dropping, And has flowed onto flood Casino, And is now heading for Coraki(as well as the water from Lismore), Theres some coverage of that here. The entire area has been classified as a Natural Disaster zone
To all those who have family/friends in town, And to all those affected by the flood waters locally and in the region, I wish you luck and hope that you’ve stayed safe.
Update: I’ve been out helping friends affected by the water, And have got some more photos, I’ll be uploading and posting a new entry answering most of the questions as best as i can.
Update2: Next Post
Just a quick post right now, Bringing some photos from the Kyogle Flood of Jan 2008
http://dd32.id.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=10
The Richmond River has been expecting to peak about 18m, Currently its peaked at 18.1m, Theres an online view of the current river height here: http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDN60231/IDN60231.558002.plt.shtml
For other rivers in the area, Have a look at the BOM‘s main river level page: http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDN60140.html
Just a quick note to notify people that Version 0.5 of my DeviantArt WordPress plugin has been released.
Please see the plugins page here for more information.
Recently after getting into XML parsing with PHP and realising how hard most of the functions were to use, I decided to put it down and that i was going to require PHP5 for all my projects. Great i thought, SOAP, PHP’s got a SOAPClient class!
Personally i didnt like the Soap class, I’m happy to hardcode the values i send to the server, But i want to read the returned XML easily.
I looked around, and found SimpleXML, And i like it!, It worked well with all the sniplets of XML i gave it.. Well, Until i actually used it on some live data!
Suddenly SimpleXML refuses to parse the SOAP reply…
Heres a example of XML SimpleXML didnt like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetProviders xmlns="http://hostname/" />
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
See any problem? Looks valid to me!
The cause of it not parsing though? SimpleXML doesnt like any colons(:) in tagnames or attribute names! If its contained within the value of the tag or attribute its ok though.
So, What can i do? A Mass-replace of all colons? That’d potentially destroy my source data..
I came up with this short snipplet of PHP regular expressions to strip out any colons in the tags/attributes:
$out = preg_replace('|<([/\w]+)(:)|m','<$1',$in);
$out = preg_replace('|(\w+)(:)(\w+=\")|m','$1$3',$out);
The result after this has been done:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soapEnvelope xmlnsxsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlnsxsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlnssoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapBody>
<GetProviders xmlns="http://hostname/" />
</soapBody>
</soapEnvelope>
As you can see, the general gyst of the document is there, and its parsable, just without the colons where simpleXML cant handle them.