kilmer/weather-client

A reusable PHP package for retrieving weather data from OpenWeather API

dev-main 2025-08-18 21:27 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^7.9

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.5

MIT

README

WeatherClient is a reusable PHP Composer package for retrieving weather data from the OpenWeather API.

Features

• Fetch current weather data for Ndola City
• Basic output of weather information
• Built on top of Guzzle HTTP client

Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• Composer
• CodeIgniter 4

Installation

Install via Composer(recommended):

• composer require kilmer/weather-client

Usage

<?php
use Kalam\WeatherClient\WeatherClient;

$apiKey = 'YOUR_OPENWEATHER_API_KEY';
$client = new WeatherClient($apiKey);

$weather = $client->getCurrentWeather('London');
print_r($weather);

Get your API key from here

https://openweathermap.org/api

Results

• once everything is set, run your CI4 project and navigate to localhost:8080/weather

Example usage in CI4

clone this repo https://github.com/BwalyaMK/WhatsTheWeather.git