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mikael12 on 10/03/10


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Google Weather

 / Published in: PHP
 

URL: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/02/08/googles-secret-weather-api/

Use param hl for localization

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  1. /*
  2.  * @param string $destination Example: Paris
  3.  *
  4.  */
  5.  
  6. function get_weather($destination)
  7. {
  8. 	$ch = curl_init();
  9. 	$result = '';
  10.  
  11.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather='.$destination.'&hl=sk');
  12.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  13. 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  // RETURN THE CONTENTS OF THE CALL
  14. 	$res = str_replace('¹', 'Š', utf8_encode(curl_exec($ch)));
  15.  
  16. 	if ($res === false)
  17. 	{
  18. 		echo 'Nepodarilo sa zistiť po�asie.';
  19. 		return false;
  20. 	}
  21.  
  22. 	$xml = new SimplexmlElement($res);
  23.  
  24. 	if (! empty($xml->weather->current_conditions))
  25. 	{
  26. 		foreach($xml->weather as $item) {
  27.  
  28. 			/* $current = $item->current_conditions;
  29. 			$result = '<div class="weather_icon">Dnes <br />'.
  30. 				'<img src="http://www.google.com/' .$current->icon['data'] . '"/><br />'.
  31. 				$current->temp_c['data'].'&deg;C</div>'; */
  32.  
  33. 			foreach($item->forecast_conditions as $new) {
  34. 				$result .= '<div class="weather_icon">'.ucfirst($new->day_of_week['data']).'<br />
  35. 					<img src="http://www.google.com/' .$new->icon['data'] . '"/><br />'.
  36. 					 $new->low['data'].'-'.$new->high['data'].'&deg;C</div>';
  37.  
  38. 			}
  39. 		}
  40. 	}
  41.  
  42. 	return $result;
  43.  
  44. }

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