Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition [message #173842 is a reply to message #173839] |
Sun, 08 May 2011 12:11 |
Jerry Stuckle
Messages: 2598 Registered: September 2010
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On 5/8/2011 3:07 AM, Evolution wrote:
> 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.
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> 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?
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It all depends on the security policies of your college and how the
server is being used.
> 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.
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phpinfo() can tell you pretty much everything you need to know.
> 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.
>
Because I'm running the code from my own server, not yours. And I have
allow_url_fopen() enabled.
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