<?
function get_data($item) {
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->load('http://weather/weather/all-output.xml');
  $arrFeeds = array();
  foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('weather') as $node) {
    $itemRSS = array ( 
      $item => $node->getElementsByTagName($item)->item(0)->nodeValue,
      );
    array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);
  }
  echo $itemRSS[$item];
}

function summon($person,$status) {
  if ($person == "russ") {
    $myFile = "russ.txt";
    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
    fwrite($fh, $status);
    fclose($fh);
  }
  if ($person == "beth") {
    $myFile = "beth.txt";
    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
    fwrite($fh, $status);
    fclose($fh); 
  } 
}

function summon_status($person) {
  if ($person == "russ") {
    $myFile = "russ.txt";
    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r') or die("can't open file");
    $status = fread($fh, 5);
    fclose($fh);
  }
  if ($person == "beth") {
    $myFile = "beth.txt";
    $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r') or die("can't open file");
    $status = fread($fh, 5);
    fclose($fh);
  }
  return($status);
}
?>