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Yahoo! Weather RSS Parsing

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  1. <?php
  2. function retrieveYahooWeather($zipCode="84015") {
  3.     $yahooUrl = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss";
  4.     $yahooZip = "?p=$zipCode";
  5.     $yahooFullUrl = $yahooUrl . $yahooZip; 
  6.     $curlObject = curl_init();
  7.     curl_setopt($curlObject,CURLOPT_URL,$yahooFullUrl);
  8.     curl_setopt($curlObject,CURLOPT_HEADER,false);
  9.     curl_setopt($curlObject,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
  10.     $returnYahooWeather = curl_exec($curlObject);
  11.     curl_close($curlObject);
  12.     return $returnYahooWeather;
  13. }
  14. $localZipCode = "84015"; // Clearfield, UT
  15. $weatherXmlString = retrieveYahooWeather($localZipCode);
  16. $weatherXmlObject = new SimpleXMLElement($weatherXmlString);
  17. $currentCondition = $weatherXmlObject->xpath("//yweather:condition");
  18. $currentTemperature = $currentCondition[0]["temp"];
  19. $currentDescription = $currentCondition[0]["text"];
  20. ?>

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