How to use openweathermap api key?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/jsonview?hl=en