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Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition

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On 5/8/2011 3:07 AM, Evolution wrote:
> On May 7, 4:23 am, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net>  wrote:
>> On 5/7/2011 6:21 AM, Evolution wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 6, 6:23 pm, Jerry Stuckle<jstuck...@attglobal.net>    wrote:
>>>> On 5/6/2011 6:22 PM, Evolution wrote:
>>
>>>>> On phpbuilder.com,  I found the following:
>>
>>>>>     http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10283087
>>
>>>>> which discusses how to obtain the current weather for a feed closest
>>>>> to you.
>>
>>>>> I modified the code to my site but didn't get the same results as
>>>>> shown by Kudose (a poster at the bottom of that same page).
>>
>>>>> My code is:
>>>>> <?
>>>>> session_register();
>>>>> session_start();
>>>>> $url = 'http://www.nws.noaa.gov/data/current_obs/KSBA.xml';
>>>>> $xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
>>
>>>>> echo '<b>Santa Barbara weather:</b><br />';
>>>>> echo $xml->weather, '<br />';
>>>>> echo $xml->temperature_string, '<br />';
>>>>> echo $xml->relative_humidity, '% humidity<br />';
>>>>> ?>
>>
>>>>> and the impaired results are on a test page at:
>>
>>>>>     http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/library/php/weather.php
>>
>>>>> Can anybody point me in the right direction?  I'm essentially a
>>>>> newbie.
>>>>> Thanks!
>>
>>>> The code works for me.
>>
>>> Wow!  What could make this possible if I am using PHP5 and my browser
>>> fails but yours doesn't?
>>
>> There are several possibilities.  For instance, do you have a firewall
>> blocking access?  Is allow_url_fopen() disabled?  Or any of several things.
>>
>> You need to do some debugging.  First thing is to ensure they php.ini
>> file on your development system has:
>>
>> display_errors=on
>> error_reporting=E_ALL  // or E_ALL | E_STRICT
>>
>> And see what kind of error messages you are getting.
>
> According to phpinfo(), allow_url_fopen is off.  Although I maintain
> websites in my department as a network admin, I do not manage this
> particular site because, due to lack of staff, the Department gave the
> responsibility of it to the college several years back.  Is there some
> security risk that would make them keep it off?
>

It all depends on the security policies of your college and how the 
server is being used.

> Also, as you can imagine, I have no shell access to this system
> (except indirectly by mounting the directory tree via smb) and,
> according to phpinfo(), the php.ini file is located in the /etc/php/
> apache2-php5/ directory.  Thus, I am unable to even view the php.ini
> file.
>

phpinfo() can tell you pretty much everything you need to know.

> I still cannot fathom though why a remote client (yours) would be able
> to view the results but not a local client (mine).  Why would the
> server say no to me but not to you which, inherently, is less secure?
> It's not that I doubt you -- I'm just trying to understand what's
> happening here.
>

Because I'm running the code from my own server, not yours.  And I have 
allow_url_fopen() enabled.



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getting only the temperature & general weather condition Evolution <cryptozoan@gmail.com> - 2011-05-06 15:22 -0700
  Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-06 21:23 -0400
    Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-07 06:07 -0400
      Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-07 07:17 -0400
        Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-07 07:28 -0400
          Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-07 07:40 -0400
    Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Evolution <cryptozoan@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 03:21 -0700
      Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-07 07:23 -0400
        Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Evolution <cryptozoan@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 00:07 -0700
          Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-08 08:11 -0400
            Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Evolution <cryptozoan@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 16:29 -0700
              Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-08 21:53 -0400
  Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition MacRoks <macroks@aim.com> - 2011-05-06 22:24 -0400
    Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition Evolution <cryptozoan@gmail.com> - 2011-05-07 03:17 -0700
      Re: getting only the temperature & general weather condition MacRoks <macroks@aim.com> - 2011-05-07 20:39 -0400

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