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A PHP library for interacting with the OpenWeather API, providing tools for retrieving and processing weather data, including forecasts, current conditions, and historical data.

Features

• Support for free OpenWeather API endpoints (including One Call API):
  • Current weather data
  • 5-day/3-hour forecast
  • One Call API (current, hourly, and daily forecast)
  • Historical weather data

Installation

Install the library via Composer:

composer require bejblade/openweather

Configuration

The Config class is used to manage global settings for the library. You can set following options:

• api_key (Required): Your OpenWeather API key.
• language: Language for API responses (default 'en').
• date_format: Date format used in dates of API data. PHP date format for displaying dates (default 'd/m/Y').
• time_format: Time format used in dates of API data. PHP date format for displaying time (default 'H:i').
• timezone: Some data from the API is returned only in the UTC timezone. Set this option to convert the data to your selected timezone. PHP supported timezone (default 'UTC')
• units: Units for temperature and measure, API data will be recieved in this format. (default metric)
  • metric: Celsius/Metric
  • imperial: Fahrenheit/Imperial
  • standard: Kelvin/Metric

Some of the options can be set in .env file:

• api_key: OPENWEATHER_API_KEY,
• language: OPENWEATHER_LANGUAGE

By default, only api_key is required, other options will be loaded with default settings.

Basic setup

use Bejblade\OpenWeather\OpenWeather;

// Initialize OpenWeather API with Your API key using default configuration
$api = new OpenWeather(['api_key' => 'your_api_key']);

Example

use Bejblade\OpenWeather\OpenWeather;


$api = new OpenWeather(['api_key' => 'your_api_key']);

// First initialize location object
$location = $api->findLocationByName('London');

// Fetch weather data
$weather = $api->getWeather($location);

echo 'Current weather in ' . $location->getName() .': '. $weather->getDescription();
echo 'Temperature: ' . $weather->temperature()->get().'°'.$weather->temperature()->getUnits();

if($location->getWeather()->isRaining()) // You can also access weather through location objects
    echo "It's raining";

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.