README

WeatherClient is a reusable PHP Composer package for fetching current weather data from the OpenWeather API. It works in standalone PHP scripts and integrates easily with CodeIgniter 4.

Features

• Accepts API key on initialization
• Fetches current weather for any city
• Adds Authorization: Bearer {API_KEY} header automatically
• Returns weather data as an associative array

Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require lukundo/weather-client

API Key Setup

Get your API key from OpenWeather and pass it when initializing the client:

$client = new WeatherClient('your_api_key');

Usage

Standalone PHP

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Lukundo\WeatherClient;

$client = new WeatherClient('your_api_key');
$weather = $client->getWeather('Ndola');
print_r($weather);

CodeIgniter 4

use Lukundo\WeatherClient;

public function showWeather()
{
    $client = new WeatherClient('your_api_key');
    $data['weather'] = $client->getWeather('Ndola');
    return view('weather_view', $data);
}

Sample Output

[
    'city' => 'Ndola',
    'temperature' => 23.5,
    'description' => 'clear sky',
    'humidity' => 60,
    'wind_speed' => 4.2
]

License

MIT License

Contributing

Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.