GeoIP Weather

About

GeoIP Weather is a PHP web application that uses GeoIP City to geocode a user's IP and makes requests to the weather.com XML API to return local weather data to the user.

History

GeoIP Weather was initially written as a weekend project in late July 2009. Four months later, it was linked to from the front page of reddit even though it wasn't quite ready for prime time. It generated a fair bit of interest and praise despite the defects so a decision was made to formally release the source code and continue active development.

Demo

A live demo is available at http://geoipweather.com/ and a screenshot is available.

Overview

Requires PHP 5.2.

Conforms to the weather.com API (including restrictions like displaying weather.com ads/links).

Less than 500 lines of code/HTML.

Downloads

The latest version is 0.4 and it was released on January 18th, 2010.

geoipweather-0.4.tar.gz

geoipweather-0.4.zip

Future Enhancements

Tidy up the geoipweather class and the UI separation.

Add more foreign character to English character mappings to enhance compatibility with the weather.com location ID search API.

Support toggling between Celsius/Fahrenheit.

Support multiple weather providers. weather.com has temporary failures quite often.

Changes between 0.3 and 0.4

Caching is now done on-disk instead of via pecl-APC. GeoIP lookups are now done in pure PHP rather than through the pecl-GeoIP extension.

A bug affecting South Korea lookups was fixed.

Author / License

GeoIP Weather was written by Jolan Luff and is released under a permissive ISC-like license.

Contact

Feedback and patches may be sent to geoipweather@gormsby.com.