WeaCast - Weather Forecast

WeaCast is a web application about forecasting weather, climate, etc. This app is built with codeigniter and an weather API(OpenWeatherMap).

For more info about the API you can check here OpenWeatherMap API

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1. Demo Apps

• Clone/download this repo
• Put in htdocs
• Turn on your web server(ex: xampp,wampp)
• Config base url configuration base_url (if needed)
• Run in browser "localhost/weather-forecast/" (follow your configuration)

Homepage

Result page

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2. Configuration

application/config.php - Set link app

$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/weather-forecast/';

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3. Controller

application/controllers/Forecast.php - App controller

Homepage controller

public function index()
	{
		$data['title'] = "Home";
		$this->load->view('forecast', $data);
	}

Result page controller

public function forecasting()
	{
		if(!empty($_POST['city'])) {
			$data['current_weather'] = $this->M_Forecast->current_weather($_POST['city']);
			$data['forecast_weather'] = $this->M_Forecast->forecast_weather($_POST['city']);
		} else {
			$data['current_weather']=null;
			$data['forecast_weather']=null;
		}
		
		$data['title'] = "Result";
        $this->load->view('weacast', $data);
	}

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4. Model

application/models/M_Forecast.php - App model

Get data Current Weather (Left side)

function current_weather($city)
    {
		 //get JSON
		 $json = file_get_contents("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?appid=770a17f9520e41124656aa601bc34b3c&units=metric&q=$city", false);

		 //decode JSON to array
		 $data = json_decode($json,true);
		 
		 //return data array()
		 return $data;
    }

Get data Forecast (Right side)

function forecast_weather($city)
    {
		 //get JSON
		 $json = file_get_contents("http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?appid=770a17f9520e41124656aa601bc34b3c&units=metric&q=$city&cnt=7", false);

		 //decode JSON to array
		 $data = json_decode($json,true);
		 
		 //return data array()
		 return $data;
    }