I have openweathermap api key , but how can I use it in PHP ? and the weather report should be report from a city name, not from the location weather ID
How to use API key
Add the following parameter to the GET request: APPID=APIKEY Example: api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/city?APPID=YOURAPIKEY & what ever you want to request.
<?php
$request = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/city?APPID=***YOURAPIKEY***';
$response = file_get_contents($request);
$jsonobj = json_decode($response);
print_r($jsonobj);
?>
To request specific information just look at the keys that the API accepts and append & to the end of the url KEY=VAL.
An example would be
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?APPID=YourAPIKey&q=London
I would also like to add when working with API's I recommend installing a JSON viewer plugin. I got the JSONView installed as a Google chrome extension which is brilliant for viewing json.