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#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
$dom=DOMDocument::load(‘http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=44047′);
$items=$dom->getElementsByTagName(‘item’);
foreach($items as $item) {
foreach($item->childNodes as $child) {
if ($child->namespaceURI==’http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0′) {
if ($child->localName==’forecast’) {
$forecast=”Today’s forecast: “.$child->getAttribute(‘text’).” with a high of “.$child->getAttribute(‘high’);
break 2;
}
}
}
}
echo $forecast.”n”;
?>

Pipe the output through festival –tty. In addition to running this script, the alarm crontab entry also starts up …