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How to Create Weather App Using Weather API in PHP | How to Use Weather API in Website

Hi in This tutorial we are going to learn how to create a weather app using HTML, CSS, PHP, and weather API.

Related Quries:

How do I create a weather app?
How do I create a weather forecast for my website?
How do I use Weather API on my website?
How do I find my weather API key?
How do I get weather on my Android?
How do I get free weather API?

Weather Application Guide:

Step 1: Create the basic Main Page
I have created a basic UI that look like cards and each card displays current location weather information.

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Step 2: Create a Weather API key using Open Weather Map Website

You first need to Sign Up before you can generate an API key for your Weather API. After signing up navigate to the API section of the website and select the automatically generated weather API key. Save this API key as you will need this to call from your app.
Open Weather Website: https://openweathermap.org/

Step 3: Call the weather API

I have used Retrofit for a type-safe HTTP client call. For calling the weather API we need the base URL of the and the user’s coordinates are parameters.

How to use Weather API?

First of all, you need to get an API Key. Once you sign up using your email, the API key (APPID) will be sent to you in a confirmation email. Your API keys can always be found on your account page, where you can also generate additional API keys if needed.

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