Hi All,

I have an API which I am using to show live weather on my website, however I am trying to run the function on my Page.php file as it will be used on every page throughout the site. Please find my function below, it seems to not make it past the if(asset) line. I have been throwing in extra returns to try and see some result only which I see is "Data =." on my website.

Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

public function WeatherData() {
$forecast = new ForecastIO();
$data = @$forecast->getForecastToday(-34.051397, 151.154069);

return "Data = " . $data;
return $forecast;

if (isset($data) && is_object($data)) {

$weather = array(
'Temperature' => round($data->getTemperature()) . '°',
'Summary' => $data->getSummary(),
'Icon' => $data->getIcon(),
'WindSpeed' => round(($data->getWindSpeed() / 1.852)),
'Humidity' => ($data->getHumidity() * 100) . '%',
'CloudCover' => ($data->getCloudCover() * 100) . '%'
);

if ($data->getWindBearing()) {
$directions = array('N', 'NE', 'E', 'SE', 'S', 'SW', 'W', 'NW', 'N');
$weather['WindBearing'] = $directions[round($data->getWindBearing()/45)];
}

$todayData = @$forecast->getForecastToday(-34.051397, 151.154069);

return new ArrayData($weather);
return "true";
} else {
return "false";
return false;
}

}

I see is "Data =." on my website

@$forecast->getForecastToday() is not returning anything.

Please remove the '@' sign in $data = @$forecast->getForecastToday() -- error suppression is really bad practice -- and put the site in dev mode to get proper error messages.

OK I did remove the @ symbol and there was an error validating the SSL Certificate, I have used CURL to access the URL in place of file_get_contents.
This is now running without any errors however I still can't see any data/content coming through only what I mentioned in my first post.

Well. One step closer to home.

If you'd do a var_dump($data), what would be its output.

I receive just a "NULL" when doing the var_dump($data);

Also on the url that the content is coming from does have content and I am running json_decode.

Seems like getForecastToday() does not return any data and your function will stop by "if (isset($data) && is_object($data))", because it's neither isset() nor a object. You will have to investigate getForecastToday() and this is not a SilverStripe issue.

Also on the url that the content is coming from does have content and I am running json_decode.

Well json_decode happen to return NULL on an error. Maybe a json_last_error() will shed some light in this matter.

http://php.net/manual/de/function.json-last-error.php