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# 1  
Old 02-14-2010
Help with PHP and shell_exec!!!
Hi, I've been working on a PHP script which is "supposed" to find an individuals weather based on their geolocation. This script uses "shell_exec".

I have checked my syntax and it is correct, but there is still something missing; for when I call on the script using:
Code:
<form action='/weather.php' method='get'><br>
<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Check'><br>
</form>

I get a blank page Smilie

Here is my script:
Code:
<?php

function getWeather() {
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; 
$geo = shell_exec("/usr/bin/curl -s api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$ip | /usr/bin/sed -e '1d;3d' -e's|C.*:||' -e's/...\(.*\)/\1/' -e's|-|%2d|' -e's/ /%20/' -e\s/'/%27/'");
$getAddress = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=$geo";
$xml_str = file_get_contents($getAddress,0);
$xml = new SimplexmlElement($xml_str);
$count = 0;
echo '<div id="weather">';

foreach($xml->weather as $item) {

        foreach($item->current_conditions as $new) {

            echo '<div class="weatherIcon">';
            echo '<img src="http://www.google.com/' .$new->icon['data'] . '"/><br/>';
        echo $new->condition['data'];
            echo $new->temp_f['data'];
            echo $new->temp_c['data'];
            echo $new->humidity['data'];
            echo $new->wind_condition['data'];
            echo '</div>';
            }

        foreach($item->forecast_conditions as $new) {

            echo '<div class="weatherIcon">';
            echo '<img src="http://www.google.com/' .$new->icon['data'] . '"/><br/>';
            echo $new->day_of_week['data'];
            echo $new->condition['data'];
            echo $new->low['data'];
            echo $new->high['data'];
            echo '</div>';
            }

    }

echo '</div>';
}

getWeather();

?>

I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Jared
Last edited by o0110o; 02-14-2010 at 04:46 PM.. Reason: Typo
# 2  
Old 02-14-2010
A blank page when calling a PHP script often means a fatal PHP error.

What does your PHP error log file say?

---------- Post updated at 01:54 ---------- Previous update was at 01:43 ----------

Also.....

I would not use PHP shell exec to execute cURL. I would use the normal PHP cURL function.
# 3  
Old 02-16-2010
[RESOLVED]
I ended up getting this script to work with
file_get_contents and preg_match instead of cURL and SED.

Thanks for your help Smilie
# 4  
Old 02-16-2010
Normally when people post here and then they solve their problem, they post back with the solution, so others can benefit.

This is the second post of yours I have seen where you simply post back, "Problem Solved, Thanks!"

This is not the way to thank people. The proper way to thank the community is to post back your working code, the solution, so others can benefit.

Please post your working code. Thanks.
# 5  
Old 02-16-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Normally when people post here and then they solve their problem, they post back with the solution, so others can benefit.

This is the second post of yours I have seen where you simply post back, "Problem Solved, Thanks!"

This is not the way to thank people. The proper way to thank the community is to post back your working code, the solution, so others can benefit.

Please post your working code. Thanks.
Well I WAS going to post the polished script under a different title because the script no longer uses "shell_exec()" , but I have no problem posting the WIP for now, so here it is:
Code:
<?php

function getWeather($ip=false) {
    
   if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))
    {
        $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
    } elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))
    {
        $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
    }
    else
    {
        $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    }
    $url = "http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=$ip";
    $geo = file_get_contents($url);
    if( preg_match('/City: (.*)\nIP:/', $geo, $matches) ){
        $results = $matches[1];
    }else{
        $results = 'getLocation failure';

    }

$location = urlencode($results);
$getAddress = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=$location";
$xml_str = file_get_contents($getAddress,0);
$xml = new SimplexmlElement($xml_str);
$count = 0;
echo '<div id="weather">';
foreach($xml->weather as $item) {

foreach($item->forecast_information as $new) {
            echo $new->city['data'];
            }

        foreach($item->current_conditions as $new) {

            echo '<div class="weatherIcon">';
            echo '<img src="http://www.google.com/' .$new->icon['data'] . '"/><br/>';
        echo $new->condition['data'];
            echo $new->temp_f['data'];
            echo $new->temp_c['data'];
            echo $new->humidity['data'];
            echo $new->wind_condition['data'];
            echo '</div>';
            }

        foreach($item->forecast_conditions as $new) {

            echo '<div class="weatherIcon">';
            echo '<img src="http://www.google.com/' .$new->icon['data'] . '"/><br/>';
            echo $new->day_of_week['data'];
            echo $new->condition['data'];
            echo $new->low['data'];
            echo $new->high['data'];
            echo '</div>';
            }

    }

echo '</div>';
}

getWeather();

?>

Now maybe you can help me "beautify" the final output?
I would like for this to look nice for people and right now it's messy Smilie
See here:
Code:
http://thefeedcast.net/knooph.com/x/weather.php

Thanks again Smilie
Last edited by o0110o; 02-16-2010 at 03:02 PM.. Reason: Link FIXED
# 6  
Old 02-16-2010
Well, first of all, you will get much faster performance if you use the PHP function cURL() and not get_file_contents().

Here are some sample benchmarks from stackoverflow, file_get_contents VS CURL, what has better performance?

Quote:
I just did some quick benchmarking on this.

Fetching google.com using file_get_contents took (in seconds):

2.31319094
2.30374217
2.21512604
3.30553889
2.30124092

CURL took:

0.68719101
0.64675593
0.64326
0.81983113
0.63956594

This was using the benchmark class from PHP Optimization – Using A Timer To Benchmark Code And Increase Speed
That's a huge difference.

FWIW, I always use curl() and not get_file_contents().
# 7  
Old 02-16-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Neo
Well, first of all, you will get much faster performance if you use the PHP function cURL() and not get_file_contents().

Here are some sample benchmarks from stackoverflow, file_get_contents VS CURL, what has better performance?



That's a huge difference.

FWIW, I always use curl() and not get_file_contents().
Nice, curl() sounds good. So how would I implement curl()?
Do I just replace "get_file_contents" with "curl()"?
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