If you need to show weather in your website, you can use weather widget such as weatherbug. It’s nice and simple, but maybe you need something more integrated with your website. So, take a look at Google Weather API.
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=[city name]
Example :
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=jakarta
It will give you xml data, and you can parse it easy in PHP. Take a look at sample code.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 | <? $xml = simplexml_load_file('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=jakarta'); $information = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/forecast_information"); $current = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/current_conditions"); $forecast_list = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/forecast_conditions"); ?> <html> <head> <title>Google Weather API</title> </head> <body> <h1><?= print $information[0]->city['data']; ?></h1> <h2>Today's weather</h2> <div class="weather"> <img src="<?= 'http://www.google.com' . $current[0]->icon['data']?>" alt="weather"?> <span class="condition"> <?= $current[0]->temp_f['data'] ?>° F, <?= $current[0]->condition['data'] ?> </span> </div> <h2>Forecast</h2> <? foreach ($forecast_list as $forecast) : ?> <div class="weather"> <img src="<?= 'http://www.google.com' . $forecast->icon['data']?>" alt="weather"?> <div><?= $forecast->day_of_week['data']; ?></div> <span class="condition"> <?= $forecast->low['data'] ?>° F - <?= $forecast->high['data'] ?>° F, <?= $forecast->condition['data'] ?> </span> </div> <? endforeach ?> </body> </html> |
In real world, you need to take consideration to cache the result, you don’t need to call the google API each time as the weather change daily. That’s it. Happy coding everyone.
You can see the weather at Jakarta.
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Thanks! This will be very useful, I was wandering wich way could do this in some of my websites.
Regards.
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Awesome post. One problem with using this method is that most shared servers won’t have “allow_url_fopen = On” set in php.ini (for security reasons). So I did some preliminary steps to get the data in using CURL, which many servers do have. I’ll try and paste it here… though not sure if the comment will display correctly:
$ch = curl_init(“http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=04843″);
$fp = fopen(“camden_weather.xml”, “w”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);
$xml = simplexml_load_file(‘camden_weather.xml’);
… no changes to rest of PHP or HTML
Nice work! Thanks!
Forgot to mention that another nice thing about using CURL is that you can then cache that XML file and have your code check first to see if there’s a cached version. My code doesn’t include that, but it’s not a bad idea to have.
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nice information, i will try to do something in my sites