On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 08:13 PM, Shannon Doyle wrote:
> > Hi People, > > I have been looking around the web lately and have noted a number of > sites are running what appears to be php scripts that parse their local > weather information and display it on their wesite. > > Well, I want to do the same, however I have been searching and found > nothing that does what I want it to do. The only ones that I can find > are either the output style of weather.com (ie all or nothing) or use > their own graphics etc to display the data. > > All I want to be able to do is give the current conditions (ie partly > cloudy) and the current temperature. I haven't decided if I then want to > use this info to create an image or if I will display it as straight > text. This is the beauty of XML... It's usually done using something called XML-RPC. There's a nice O'Reilly introduction to the topic, at xml.com, and I'm sure that after reading this you'll be better-prepared to search for scripts that do this for you. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/08/rpc/ Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
