Posts Tagged ‘Advanced’

  • Parse ZFP (Zone Forecast Product) Data in PHP – Option 1

    In a previous article, I covered 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site, but did not provide any actual code to use the data. Since then, I covered sources #1 and #2. None of these sources had any English-formed forecasts. For that, we have to go to the Zone Forecast Product, but we […]

    Published: March 3rd, 2010 by:
  • More Examples with Parsing NDFD Data in PHP

    I covered how to Parse Weather Forecast Data (from the NDFD) in PHP in a previous article, but due to the amount of questions I received, I decided to show some more usage techniques and examples. In this article, I will cover the time-series option as well as some methods on how to make some […]

    Published: March 3rd, 2009 by:
  • Parse Current Weather Conditions Data from the NWS in PHP

    In a previous article, I covered 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site, but did not provide any actual code to use the data. Last week, I covered source #1 and showed how to Parse Weather Forecast Data (from the NDFD) in PHP. For this article, I will show how to parse source […]

    Published: February 26th, 2009 by:
  • Parse Weather Forecast Data (from the NDFD) in PHP

    In a previous article, I covered 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site, but did not provide any actual code to use the data. Starting with this article, I will post instructions on how to handle this data as well as sample code. For this article, we will start with the National Digital […]

    Published: February 19th, 2009 by:
  • Get the Lat/Lon Location of Major US Cities

    In this article, learn how to fetch the latitude & longitude location of all major US cities. I’m going to provide you with a comprehensive list of almost 500 major US cities as well as the source, so you can get the updated list as city sizes change.

    Published: January 27th, 2009 by:
  • 5 Sources of Free Weather Data for your Site

    The weather has always fascinated me, and I actually almost became a meteorologist instead of a full-time entrepreneur. I recently had a project where I had to pull tons of weather data and display it on a website. It took tons of research to find what I was looking for, so I am presenting all […]

    Published: December 11th, 2008 by:
  • Several mod_rewrite Tricks for a Better Web Application

    Apache’s .htaccess file options makes it easy to have clean URLs, smart redirects, and even control SSL connections.  In this post, I am going to give you several tips on how you make your web applications smarter.  Note that your server must support mod_rewrite in order to use these tips.

    Published: July 21st, 2008 by:
  • RSS & Atom Feeds Made Easy for Developers

    In this entry you will find 2 feed templates ready to work on your TinyButStrong website. All you need to to is include these templates, set some variables, and merge the data block.

    Published: June 25th, 2007 by: