tony stamp wrote:
>
> Thanks ant, that was almost exactly what i was aiming for.
>
> But i've been reading a lot about the downsides of the actionstack, and
> also feel that the process of geocoding the address should be a behaviour
> of the model itself. I will be using the google API to obtain the acutal
> geocodes, but was wondering how to make a call to the google API using the
> zf - an external request, so to speak?
>
Well that depends on what functionality you need... specifically, but if i
understand your question correctly it doesnt have anything to do with
Zend_Controller. You would make this call with Zend_Http_Client or some
other HTTP client class, use the raw CURL or fopen functions in php, or use
an external process with wget or something similar.
This would all be implemented in the Class responsible for the Geocoding
(My_GoogleApi_Geocode) in the example... Actually im not sure if the GData
components in zend already handle this or not - i havent even looked at them
yet but they may already contain the logic you need.
So you pass in the address to the geocoder class and it does the following:
- Creates and url for the googleapi to geocode the supplied address
- sets up a php HTTP client of some sort
- Fires off a request with the HTTP client to the googleapi url
- parses the response from google and puts the lat and lng in an array
- returns that array
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