How to capture current temperature and current city?

z3r0aCc3Ss · Post by **z3r0aCc3Ss** » 02 Apr 2014, 00:49

I want to capture current user location city and temperature of that city via PHP and/or jQuery?

Is it possible? Please provide some reference.

cwdykarn · Post by **cwdykarn** » 02 Apr 2014, 04:08

This should help you out, to get started

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http://www.mylesgray.com/software/use-geolocation-get-user-location-weather-ip-address/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12126295/show-weather-based-on-users-location

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_geolocation.asp

regards @cwDYKARN

Post by **bad_brain** » 02 Apr 2014, 04:13

hm, not sure about the temperature, you might want to google for something like a live temperature database, I guess big weather channels provide something like that...with a little luck with a (free) API...

fetching the location is no big deal though, you can use the GeoLite2 database for that:
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I am using it too for analytics of some websites, and it's quite accurate...how accurate of course depends a little on the location, at least the IP locations for North America and Europe are really precise....

z3r0aCc3Ss · Post by **z3r0aCc3Ss** » 03 Apr 2014, 00:02

I liked MaxMind service, but not getting any idea on how to use it...
Can anyone give me short code snippet on it?

Post by **bad_brain** » 03 Apr 2014, 01:59

it's pretty well documented, have a look here:
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/downloadable/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

you can find usage instructions (together with code examples) for a whole bunch of languages (PHP too of course)....

z3r0aCc3Ss · Post by **z3r0aCc3Ss** » 03 Apr 2014, 05:37

Thanks b_b.

I used ip2location for obtaining city and then used

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http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=london&mode=xml

for obtaining weather.

Post by **bad_brain** » 04 Apr 2014, 01:27

would be cool if you can post the link, would like to see it in action so I can steal and re-use it...

z3r0aCc3Ss · Post by **z3r0aCc3Ss** » 04 Apr 2014, 09:24

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<?php
	include('php/ip2locationlite.class.php');
	 
	//Load the class
	$ipLite = new ip2location_lite;
	$ipLite->setKey('you api key here');
	 
	//Get errors and locations
	$locations = $ipLite->getCity($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
	$errors = $ipLite->getError();
	
	//Getting the result
	/*echo "<p>\n";
	echo "<strong>First result</strong><br />\n";
	if (!empty($locations) && is_array($locations)) {
	  foreach ($locations as $field => $val) {
		echo $field . ' : ' . $val . "<br />\n";
	  }
	}
	
	echo "</p>\n";*/
	 
	/*//Show errors
	echo "<p>\n";
	echo "<strong>Dump of all errors</strong><br />\n";
	if (!empty($errors) && is_array($errors)) {
	  foreach ($errors as $error) {
		echo var_dump($error) . "<br /><br />\n";
	  }
	} else {
	  echo "No errors" . "<br />\n";
	}
	echo "</p>\n";*/
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
    	<script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
    	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/custom_functions.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/jquery.xml2json.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="lib/xmlwriter.js"></script>
    	<script type="text/javascript">
			$(document).ready(function(e) {
                
            
			var proxy = 'php/phpproxy.php?url=http%3A%2F%2F';
			var city = '<?php echo $locations[cityName]; ?>';
			var uri = proxy + encodeURIComponent("api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=" + city + "&mode=xml").replace(/'/g,"%27").replace(/"/g,"%22");
			
			connect(uri, getXML, "GET", true);
			
			function getXML()
			{
				//ready state 4 and is 200 success
				if (checkSuccess(this))
				{
					// converting string response object to json object
					var jsonObj = eval("(" + this.responseText + ")");
					// converting jason string value to using xml2jason utiliy
					jsonObj = $.xml2json(jsonObj.contents, false);
					// modifying date from YYYY-MM-DD HH MM SS to DD MM YYYY
					// var trans;
					document.write(jsonObj.current.city.country);
				}
			}
			});
		</script>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
</html>

Post by **bad_brain** » 04 Apr 2014, 14:19

sweet, thanks buddy!

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