Marking up Yahoo Weather (JSON) using php/jquery/html

Question

I have used a YQL query to return a JSON object from Yahoo Weather. However i'm not sure how to markup this object.

The returning JSON object is:

{
   "query":{
      "count":3,
      "created":"2017-12-01T20:28:57Z",
      "lang":"en-GB",
      "results":{
         "channel":[
            {
               "item":{
                  "forecast":{
                     "code":"28",
                     "date":"01 Dec 2017",
                     "day":"Fri",
                     "high":"3",
                     "low":"0",
                     "text":"Mostly Cloudy"
                  }
               }
            },
            {
               "item":{
                  "forecast":{
                     "code":"26",
                     "date":"02 Dec 2017",
                     "day":"Sat",
                     "high":"7",
                     "low":"1",
                     "text":"Cloudy"
                  }
               }
            },
            {
               "item":{
                  "forecast":{
                     "code":"26",
                     "date":"03 Dec 2017",
                     "day":"Sun",
                     "high":"8",
                     "low":"6",
                     "text":"Cloudy"
                  }
               }
            }
         ]
      }
   }
}

I can see that the hierarchy is: query > results > channel[item > forecast > WEATHER DATA]

Any help or pointers to webpages / documentation is appreciated. I am also happy to provide any further information if required.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use json_decode to easily parse JSON:

<?php

$json = file_get_contents("https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20title%2C%20units.temperature%2C%20item.forecast%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20woeid%20in%20(select%20woeid%20from%20geo.places%20where%20text%3D%22Stoke%20On%20Trent%2C%20United%20Kindgdom%22)%20and%20u%20%3D%20%22C%22%20limit%203%20%7C%20sort(field%3D%22item.forecast.date%22%2C%20descending%3D%22false%22)&format=json&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys");

$data = json_decode($json);

echo $data->query->count; // Will echo out the value of count, 3 in this case