please help in this yahoo weather api class

hello,
i was in the last 3 days online on the internet trying to embed the yahoo weather data in my site , and after long long search i got that class which i attached.

i know the yahoo weather api work in that base
http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=$zipcode&u=$unit

but the problem is it is kind of complex class and iam not doing very well in the classes

the author wrote in the beginning of the lass that

/*
*** TO USE ***
$data = new weather;
$data = $data->retrieve(areaCode, units);
returns an array
* All credit of the icons goes to whoever made them. *
*/

but i still not able to load the data, so please have a look at the class and help me to load the weather data for city like new york ,area code = USNY0996

thanks

 

in the "retrieve()" function the class author uses a typecast to INT
so the class only uses numeric zip codes or it casts to 0

   function retrieve($areaCode, $units, $debug=false) {

        $this->debug = $debug;
        $this->areaCode = (int) $areaCode;
        $this->units = $units;
        if(!$this->weatherData = $this->retrieveData()) {

PHP:

this class is built to use with numeric zipcodes I guess.

$w=new weather;
$data=$w->retrieve("10027", "F");
print_r($data);

PHP:

removing the (int) typecast, you can use US****** codes and it does return data but that appears to use the yweather: namespace and might require a different parser.

 

thanks alot