/**
* Get weather conditions using openweathermap API
*/
public function getWeather()
{
$location = LocationController::getLocation();
/*Get content from openweathermap API*/
$weather = file_get_contents('http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=' . $location->latitude . '&lon=' . $location->longitude . '&units=metric');
return $weather;
}
/**
* Get the location of the client using Google API by searching for the country name and get the first image
*/
public function getCountryInfo()
{
$location = LocationController::getLocation();
/*fetch image url from google API ... code can be found at
http://stackoverflow.com/a/5694812/2786529
*/
$jsrc = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images?v=1.0&q=" . $location->country_name . "%20landmark";
$json = file_get_contents($jsrc);
$jset = json_decode($json, true);
/*encode to json format*/
$country = json_encode(['country_name' => $location->country_name, 'photourl' => $jset["responseData"]["results"][0]["url"]]);
return $country;
}
