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.
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| <?
$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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