Javascript / Client Side Development :: Weather Feed and difficulties


	Weather Feed and difficulties Hi all, I am trying to get a current weather conditions feed working. Yahoo provides a free feed @ http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=XXXXX where XXXXX is a valid US zip code e.g. (http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=43221) The feed is documented @ http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ This works fine. Where I run into trouble is learing how to use this service. I have scoured the internet and all I can find is vague advice that starts with "use something like this..." or "after some php trickery...". I imagine what I want to do is very simple. I will provide the zip and then I would like to display the current weather conditions. Can anyone please help me with this? You need a server side language, for example, PHP/JSP, to basically download the feed and than using the server side language, parse the XML file and display it. On May 16, 10:07 am, Jake G <jgood@dps.state.oh.us> wrote: - Hide quoted text - > Hi all, > I am trying to get a current weather conditions feed working. Yahoo > provides a free feed @http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=XXXXX > where XXXXX is a valid US zip code > e.g. (http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=43221) > The feed is documented @http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ > This works fine. Where I run into trouble is learing how to use this > service. I have scoured the internet and all I can find is vague > advice that starts with "use something like this..." or "after some > php trickery...". I imagine what I want to do is very simple. I will > provide the zip and then I would like to display the current weather > conditions. Can anyone please help me with this? On May 16, 11:07 am, cyclone@gmail.com wrote: - Hide quoted text - > You need a server side language, for example, PHP/JSP, to basically > download the feed and than using the server side language, parse the > XML file and display it. > On May 16, 10:07 am, Jake G <jgood@dps.state.oh.us> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to get a current weather conditions feed working. Yahoo > > provides a free feed @http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=XXXXX > > where XXXXX is a valid US zip code > > e.g. (http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=43221) > > The feed is documented @http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ > > This works fine. Where I run into trouble is learing how to use this > > service. I have scoured the internet and all I can find is vague > > advice that starts with "use something like this..." or "after some > > php trickery...". I imagine what I want to do is very simple. I will > > provide the zip and then I would like to display the current weather > > conditions. Can anyone please help me with this?- Hide quoted text - > Thats what I keep reading, but no where can I find how to do this. I would prefer to use ASP as my SS language and JS as my parser. I have code in PHP to read an xml file but again, its PHP, not ASP. O On May 16, 11:33 am, Jake G <jgood@dps.state.oh.us> wrote: - Hide quoted text - > On May 16, 11:07 am, cyclone@gmail.com wrote: > > You need a server side language, for example, PHP/JSP, to basically > > download the feed and than using the server side language, parse the > > XML file and display it. > > On May 16, 10:07 am, Jake G <jgood@dps.state.oh.us> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I am trying to get a current weather conditions feed working. Yahoo > > > provides a free feed @http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=XXXXX > > > where XXXXX is a valid US zip code > > > e.g. (http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=43221) > > > The feed is documented @http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ > > > This works fine. Where I run into trouble is learing how to use this > > > service. I have scoured the internet and all I can find is vague > > > advice that starts with "use something like this..." or "after some > > > php trickery...". I imagine what I want to do is very simple. I will > > > provide the zip and then I would like to display the current weather > > > conditions. Can anyone please help me with this?- Hide quoted text - > > > Thats what I keep reading, but no where can I find how to do this. I > would prefer to use ASP as my SS language and JS as my parser. On May 16, 8:02 am, cyclone@gmail.com wrote: - Hide quoted text - > I have code in PHP to read an xml file but again, its PHP, not ASP. > O > On May 16, 11:33 am, Jake G <jgood@dps.state.oh.us> wrote:> On May 16, 11:07 am, cyclone@gmail.com wrote: > > > You need a server side language, for example, PHP/JSP, to basically > > > download the feed and than using the server side language, parse the > > > XML file and display it. > > > On May 16, 10:07 am, Jake G <jgood@dps.state.oh.us> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to get a current weather conditions feed working. Yahoo > > > > provides a free feed @http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=XXXXX > > > > where XXXXX is a valid US zip code > > > > e.g. (http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=43221) > > > > The feed is documented @http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/ > > > > This works fine. Where I run into trouble is learing how to use this > > > > service. I have scoured the internet and all I can find is vague > > > > advice that starts with "use something like this..." or "after some > > > > php trickery...". I imagine what I want to do is very simple. I will > > > > provide the zip and then I would like to display the current weather > > > > conditions. Can anyone please help me with this?- Hide quoted text - > > > > > Thats what I keep reading, but no where can I find how to do this. I > > would prefer to use ASP as my SS language and JS as my parser. Since it looks like the feed is an XML document, you can use the AJAX concepts to retrieve and parse the feed