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I think I'm just missing something easy here.

If I run the API by just pasting my referral URL into my browser, it returns my local conditions.

Once I write some php around it and enter my website's URL into my browser, I get local conditions for my server's location.

What do I need to do to make sure that my website is displaying the actual local conditions?

Thanks!

redheadkelly

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Posted 8 years ago

8 years ago

redheadkelly

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OK... clearly this is happening because the call is being made from the Server when the php is executed.

But I'm new to this & I have no idea how to code it so that it gets the info for the viewer's machine.

Can someone just point me in the right direction, please?

Thanks.

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8 years ago

redheadkelly

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Alright, trying to answer my own question.

Figured out how to query for local IP & then convert that to City & State.

I'm confused about the IP that it's returning, though.

This code tells me I'm in Tyler, Texas, which I'm not. Neither is my Server, though, so this seems like progress.

If I ask Google what my IP is, it gives me the same IP, which, apparently, is in Tyler, Texas.

If I use the Wunderground Request URL directly in my browser, though, it knows exactly where I am in California.

How are you guys doing that???

Here's the code I wrote so far:

$user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];



$ip_string = file_get_contents("http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=1234&ip=${user_ip}");



$location = explode(";", $ip_string); 



$json_string = file_get_contents("http://api.wunderground.com/api/1234/conditions/astronomy/q/${location[8]},${location[9]}.json");

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8 years ago

redheadkelly

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OK... I guess what it is returning is the Whois information, not the Geo Information. Still stuck on this one, I guess.

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8 years ago

redheadkelly

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Halleluha! Apparently, it's all about the database.

This one seems to return the Geo location of the IP, not the Whois location of the IP.

http://www.geoio.com/

I'm sure there are other ones out there. Happy to hear suggestions if you have them.

So, the code becomes:




$user_ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];



$geo_ip = file_get_contents("http://api.geoio.com/q.php?key=1234&qt=geoip&d=semi&q=${user_ip}");



$location = explode(";", $geo_ip); 



$json_string = file_get_contents("http://api.wunderground.com/api/1234/conditions/astronomy/q/${location[4]},${location[5]}.json");

Thank you for your free service Wunderground!

Now that I have finally mastered this, please don't change with the big buyout!!! :)

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