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Find Weather Forecast from IP Address

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To retrieve the weather forecast for your location based only on your current IP, the full tutorial will have the following 5 sections (http://bit.ly/1A5Y651), that will:
- Describe elements needed for weather forecast retrieval
- Describe the weather station code field of IP2Location
- Show code that gets the weather station code from IP address
- Show code that retrieves the weather forecast from Yahoo! Weather using the weather station code.
- Show code that retrieves the weather forecast using IP2Location

Here, I will only show you how to retrieve the weather forecast.

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  1. //includes the IP2Location framework
  2. require_once('IP2Location.php');
  3.  
  4. //function that sends and retrieves an answer from a HTTP request
  5. function SendRequest( $url, $method = 'GET', $data = array(), $headers = array('Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded') )
  6. {
  7. 	$context = stream_context_create(array
  8. 	(
  9. 		'http' => array(
  10. 			'method' => $method,
  11. 			'header' => $headers,
  12. 			'content' => http_build_query( $data )
  13. 		)
  14. 	));
  15.  
  16. 	return file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
  17. }
  18.  
  19. //the client's IP
  20. $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
  21. // Standard lookup with no cache
  22. $loc = new IP2Location('databases/db24.bin');
  23.  
  24.  
  25. $stationCode=FindIPWeatherStationCode($ip,$loc);
  26. GetWeatherForecastFromYahoo($stationCode);

URL: http://www.ip2location.com/tutorials/find-weather-forecast-from-ip-address

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