| Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition [message #173826 is a reply to message #173823] |
Sat, 07 May 2011 11:28   |
bill
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Registered: October 2010
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On 5/7/2011 7:17 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 5/7/2011 6:07 AM, bill wrote:
>> On 5/6/2011 9:23 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> On 5/6/2011 6:22 PM, Evolution wrote:
>>>> On phpbuilder.com, I found the following:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10283087
>>>>
>>>> which discusses how to obtain the current weather for a feed
>>>> closest
>>>> to you.
>>>>
>>>> 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).
>>>>
>>>> My code is:
>>>> <?
>>>> session_register();
>>>> session_start();
>>>> $url = 'http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/KSBA.xml';
>>>> $xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
>>>>
>>>> echo '<b>Santa Barbara weather:</b><br />';
>>>> echo $xml->weather, '<br />';
>>>> echo $xml->temperature_string, '<br />';
>>>> echo $xml->relative_humidity, '% humidity<br />';
>>>> ?>
>>>>
>>>> and the impaired results are on a test page at:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/library/php/weather.php
>>>>
>>>> Can anybody point me in the right direction? I'm essentially a
>>>> newbie.
>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> The code works for me.
>>>
>>>
>> On Firefox 3.17 I get
>> ----------------------
>> Santa Barbara weather:
>>
>>
>> % humidity
>> --------------------
>> which is not the desired result
>>
>> bill
>
> On the same version of firefox I get:
>
> Santa Barbara weather:
> Fog/Mist
> 55.0 F (12.8 C)
> 90% humidity
>
> Which is the desired result. But the browser has absolutely
> nothing to do with it.
Indeed, I just included it for completeness.
So, why does it fail sometimes ?
bill
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