This is the place where you configurate PHP Weather. You'll need to complete two steps to fully utilise PHP Weather: make a local configuration file with information about which database to use, and then create the database.
It's save to leave these pages unprotected as they wont do anything destructive. You cannot actually change the configuration of PHP Weather using these pages, instead you download a new configuration-file which you'll have to upload to the webserver before it becomes effective. The Database Builder will also just recreate the existing tables - nothing permanent will be deleted.
Use this page to build a custom configuration-file for PHP Weather.
After you've made a custom configuration using the link above, you'll need to use this page to create the database and fill it with data.
Use this page to update the file stations.csv
with the data from your database. This file contains a list of
stations in a human-readable format and it it used by the Database Builder to populate the database
with data.
If you've configured PHP Weather to use a database, then you might be interested in knowing how long it takes to access the data in the database. This is what this page is for, it will meassure the time it takes for PHP Weather to retrieve and display a large number of METARs.
If you have several different databases available to you, then you can compare them using this page.
If you're having problems getting data into PHP Weather, then this page might help you with the troubleshooting. It will try to connect to the NWS to download a METAR the same way PHP Weather does, but here you'll get better error messages.