Get tide predictions that are usable on a website

Question

I have looked around for the past year to put tide predictions on a client's website. All I could find was free "widgets" I could use or xtide. The problem with the widgets, they are branded all over the place and looks very unprofessional for the environment. So I was looking to install xtide on the server, but after 3 days and multiple talks with the server's tech support, I was unable to install xtide due to just ONE problem with server permissions on shared hosting. So that was a flop.

So I'm back to step 1 here and I desperately need a method of getting tide predictions (preferably tides for all of the current year) of a certain location (New London, Connecticut, USA).

Does anyone know of a method to grab these tides from an alternate source via XML so I can use them in PHP? Also note, I need these to be as accurate as possible, there are a few tide prediction scripts out there for PHP, but after a few months, become far off by hours for the predictions.

I will also take suggestions for using xtide elsewise too!

Answer 1

NOAA provides tide predictions for a lot of locations around the USA, and even provides a URL you can hit to get the data in XML. Have a look at their Tides and Currents site.