Laravel Weather Package

The Laravel Weather Package is a powerful tool for integrating weather forecast data into your Laravel application. It allows you to fetch weather data for a given IP address, display geo-location information, and present a 5-day weather forecast along with a map for visualization.

Installation

To get started with the Laravel Weather Package, follow these steps:

1. Configure composer.json

"minimum-stability": "dev",

2. Install the package via Composer:

composer require ecce/laravel-weather

3. Publish the package configuration and views:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-weather-config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-weather-assets
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-weather-views

4. Configure your API key in the config/laravel-weather.php file. Visit - https://openweathermap.org/api

return [
    'api_key' => env('OPEN_WEATHER_API_KEY', ''),
];

5. Fetch data option

use Ecce\LaravelWeather\Facades\LaravelWeather;

// Example: Fetch weather data for an IP address
$ipAddress = '123.45.67.89';
$weatherData = LaravelWeather::getDailyForecast($ipAddress);
$geoLocation = $weatherData['geoLocation'];
$forecast = $weatherData['forecast'];

6. Visit URL Visit /weather-forecasts within your Laravel app