Yahoo Weather API PHP Script Example/Widget

Yahoo Weather API PHP Script Example/Widget

In this example, I will show how to create weather application using Yahoo Weather API.Yahoo Weather API allows developers and programmers to get up-to-date weather information for your location.Yahoo Weather API provides local & long range Weather Forecast, Current Conditions, weather icons and two day future.



<?php

/*



 Example: Yahoo! Weather API Example Using SimpleXML in PHP.



 The base URL for the Weather RSS feed is

http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss



 Parameters

w  WOEID 

e.g: w=111111



 u  Units for temperature

f: Fahrenheit

c: Celsius 

e.g.: u=c



 */





$city="bangalore";



$result1 = file_get_contents("http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22$city%22&format=xml");

$xml1 = simplexml_load_string($result1);

 $woeid=$xml1->results->place->woeid;



if($woeid!="")

{

 $fetchData = file_get_contents("http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=$woeid&u=c");

 $xmlData = simplexml_load_string($fetchData);

 $location = $xmlData->channel->xpath('yweather:location');

 



 if(!empty($location))

 {

 

   foreach($xmlData->channel->item as $data)

   {

   $current_condition = $data->xpath('yweather:condition');

   $forecast = $data->xpath('yweather:forecast');

    $current_condition = $current_condition[0];

   echo "

   <table width=40% border=1 align=center>

   <tr>

   <td align=center style='background-color:yellow'>

    <h1>{$location[0]['city']}, {$location[0]['region']}</h1>

   <small>Date: {$current_condition['date']}</small>

   <h2>Current Temprature</h2>

   <p>

   <span style=\"font-size:64px;font-color:red; font-weight:bold;\">{$current_condition['temp']}°C</span>

   <br/>

   <img src=\"http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/we/52/{$current_condition['code']}.gif\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"/>

   {$current_condition['text']}

   </p>

   <h2>Forecast</h2>

   <b>{$forecast[0]['day']}</b> : {$forecast[0]['text']}. <b>High:</b> {$forecast[0]['high']} <b>Low:</b> {$forecast[0]['low']}

   <br/>

   <b>{$forecast[1]['day']}</b> - {$forecast[1]['text']}. <b>High:</b> {$forecast[1]['high']} <b>Low:</b> {$forecast[1]['low']}

   </p>

   </td>

   </tr></table>

   ";

  }

 }

 else

 {

 echo "<h1>please try a different City.</h1>";

 }



 

}

else

{

echo "<h1>Please try a different City.</h1>";

}



?>