Google’s Weather & other Secret API’s

May 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
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A very simple means of extracting weather information for inclusion in your website is via a very unknown Google weather API. The API will return weather in a very digestible XML format that you can easily parse for inclusion on any page. The API requires no key and is seemingly unsupported. The Code <?php $xml [...]

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[Shortcode] Easily post an aviation Metar report into your post or page with shortcode

December 29, 2010 By 3 Comments
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I published some PHP code about 12 months ago that would output a raw aviation metar onto your website. Since I’ve published a ton of shortcode lately, I’ve had two people email me and ask how a Metar report could be posted into a WordPress post or page. Once again, easily accomplished! If you have [...]

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Aviation METAR with PHP

December 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
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I have a bunch of aviation sites, many that require weather information. I like to include raw and unformatted TAF and METAR information on a number of locations. This weather information is presented as a string of text that can be quickly deciphered by pilots. This is a small snippet of code that will retrieve [...]

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