There are 2 aspects of this feed that you need to consider. Firstly, Magic Parser by default (using autodetection) tries to parse out the most frequently repeating record; which in this feed are the main RSS items. The aws: weather details that you are trying to access are higher up in the document, so a different format string is required. The format string you need to access the top level parameters is:
xml|RSS/CHANNEL/
Secondly, having now obtained the main channel info into your record handler function as the $record array, the next issue is that you need to handle the @n postfix that Magic Parser appends to field names to resolve fields that would otherwise have the same name within the current record. This involves creating a loop through @1, @2 etc. and testing to see whether the repeating field with that postfix exists - and then using the values if so.
It's easier to explain with an example, so here is a script to read this feed running on this server:
Within the loop i've just extracted out the AWS:TITLE and AWS:SHORT-PREDICTION fields but you can of course access all the other weather fields in exactly the same way. Outside the loop, I have used the AWS:CITY and AWS:STATE fields to display the location of the forecast.
Hi,
There are 2 aspects of this feed that you need to consider. Firstly, Magic Parser by default (using autodetection) tries to parse out the most frequently repeating record; which in this feed are the main RSS items. The aws: weather details that you are trying to access are higher up in the document, so a different format string is required. The format string you need to access the top level parameters is:
xml|RSS/CHANNEL/Secondly, having now obtained the main channel info into your record handler function as the $record array, the next issue is that you need to handle the @n postfix that Magic Parser appends to field names to resolve fields that would otherwise have the same name within the current record. This involves creating a loop through @1, @2 etc. and testing to see whether the repeating field with that postfix exists - and then using the values if so.
It's easier to explain with an example, so here is a script to read this feed running on this server:
http://www.magicparser.com/examples/weather.php
Here's the source:
<?phprequire("MagicParser.php");
function myRecordHandler($record)
{
$city = $record["AWS:WEATHER/AWS:FORECASTS/AWS:LOCATION/AWS:CITY"];
$state = $record["AWS:WEATHER/AWS:FORECASTS/AWS:LOCATION/AWS:STATE"];
print "<h3>Weather Forecast for ".$city.",".$state."</h3>";
$i = 0;
while(1) {
if ($i) $postfix = "@".$i;
if (!isset($record["AWS:WEATHER/AWS:FORECASTS/AWS:FORECAST".$postfix])) break;
$day = $record["AWS:WEATHER/AWS:FORECASTS/AWS:FORECAST/AWS:TITLE".$postfix];
$pre = $record["AWS:WEATHER/AWS:FORECASTS/AWS:FORECAST/AWS:SHORT-PREDICTION".$postfix];
print "<p>".$day." - ".$pre."</p>";
$i++;
}
}
$url = "http://api.wxbug.net/getForecastRSS.aspx?ACode=A5473690772&zipCode=56395&unittype=0";
MagicParser_parse($url,"myRecordHandler","xml|RSS/CHANNEL/");
?>
Within the loop i've just extracted out the AWS:TITLE and AWS:SHORT-PREDICTION fields but you can of course access all the other weather fields in exactly the same way. Outside the loop, I have used the AWS:CITY and AWS:STATE fields to display the location of the forecast.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.