| Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition [message #173828 is a reply to message #173826] |
Sat, 07 May 2011 11:40   |
Jerry Stuckle
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Registered: September 2010
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On 5/7/2011 7:28 AM, bill wrote:
> 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
>
There can be a number of possibilities, most of which have to do with
his setup. The op needs to do further debugging - see my other post.
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