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Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition [message #173839 is a reply to message #173824] Sun, 08 May 2011 07:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On May 7, 4:23 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On 5/7/2011 6:21 AM, Evolution wrote:
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>> On May 6, 6:23 pm, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net>  wrote:
>>> On 5/6/2011 6:22 PM, Evolution wrote:
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>>>> On phpbuilder.com,  I found the following:
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>>>>   http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10283087
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>>>> which discusses how to obtain the current weather for a feed closest
>>>> to you.
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>>>> I modified the code to my site but didn't get the same results as
>>>> shown by Kudose (a poster at the bottom of that same page).
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>>>> My code is:
>>>> <?
>>>> session_register();
>>>> session_start();
>>>> $url = 'http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/KSBA.xml';
>>>> $xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
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>>>> echo '<b>Santa Barbara weather:</b><br />';
>>>> echo $xml->weather, '<br />';
>>>> echo $xml->temperature_string, '<br />';
>>>> echo $xml->relative_humidity, '% humidity<br />';
>>>> ?>
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>>>> and the impaired results are on a test page at:
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>>>>   http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/library/php/weather.php
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>>>> Can anybody point me in the right direction?  I'm essentially a
>>>> newbie.
>>>> Thanks!
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>>> The code works for me.
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>> Wow!  What could make this possible if I am using PHP5 and my browser
>> fails but yours doesn't?
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> There are several possibilities.  For instance, do you have a firewall
> blocking access?  Is allow_url_fopen() disabled?  Or any of several things.
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> You need to do some debugging.  First thing is to ensure they php.ini
> file on your development system has:
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> display_errors=on
> error_reporting=E_ALL  // or E_ALL | E_STRICT
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> And see what kind of error messages you are getting.

According to phpinfo(), allow_url_fopen is off. Although I maintain
websites in my department as a network admin, I do not manage this
particular site because, due to lack of staff, the Department gave the
responsibility of it to the college several years back. Is there some
security risk that would make them keep it off?

Also, as you can imagine, I have no shell access to this system
(except indirectly by mounting the directory tree via smb) and,
according to phpinfo(), the php.ini file is located in the /etc/php/
apache2-php5/ directory. Thus, I am unable to even view the php.ini
file.

I still cannot fathom though why a remote client (yours) would be able
to view the results but not a local client (mine). Why would the
server say no to me but not to you which, inherently, is less secure?
It's not that I doubt you -- I'm just trying to understand what's
happening here.



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