YahooWeather

A simple package to Get Yahoo weather by using YQL created By PHPAnonymous

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Example Controller

Installation

1. Using composer: composer require yahooweather/weather:dev-master

2. Add the Provider class to your config/app.php file

   YahooWeather\Weather\PHPAnonymousYahooWeather::class,

3. Add this line to the the aliases array

        'YahooWeather' => YahooWeather\Weather\AnonyControllerYahooWeather::class,

Usage

4. In your controller, make sure to add the following line:

use YahooWeather;

5. Use the YahooWeather Class. It takes two parameters, a country and a language.

 YahooWeather::Country('egypt','ar');

The result is returned as a JSON array:

{"high":"30","low":"18","image":"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/i\/us\/we\/52\/32.gif","name":"egypt","description":"\n\nCurrent Conditions:\nSunny\n\n\nForecast:\n Mon - Mostly Sunny. High: 30Low: 18\n Tue - Sunny. High: 32Low: 18\n Wed - Partly Cloudy. High: 33Low: 18\n Thu - Partly Cloudy. High: 33Low: 19\n Fri - Mostly Sunny. High: 33Low: 20\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"}

 // high | العظمي
 // low | الصغري
 // name | country name / اسم الدولة
 // image | image status frequency | حالة الطقس بالصورة 
 // description | other details | تفاصيل اخري
 
 $weather =  YahooWeather::Country('egypt','ar');
 echo $weather['high'];
 echo $weather['low'];
 echo $weather['image'];
 echo $weather['name'];
 echo $weather['description'];  

Example Controller:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use YahooWeather;
class WeatherController extends Controller
{
    public function get_weather(){
    	$weather = YahooWeather::Country('lebanon','ar');
    	var_dump($weather);
    }
}

For more advanced queries, you can use the custom query function:

$weather = YahooWeather::YQL('Your Query Here');
dd($weather);

Check the Yahoo YQL Console for more information on YQL queries: https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

That's it :)

Enjoy