got the problem.. for cities with space within them once has to encode the url so just query can be modified as "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=".urlencode($city)."&output=xml&key=$key<http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=$city&output=xml&key=$key>" works wonders !
Thanks again! Akshay On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Akshay Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Andrew, > > The reason I assumed this is because of following: > > My url is $address = " > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=$city&output=xml&key=$key";; > > and then when I try to do $page = file_get_contents($address); > > > I get following error: > > > *Warning*: > file_get_contents(http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=SanFrancisco&output=xml&key=ABQIAAAAL9E_Jepzq_1Uig0zdAuDnBQIPHeGMNc8f7iS-VvunL07sOhWqRQpQ9u7A9uOcmb_VWIw6gnFcef0HQ) > [function.file-get-contents<http://localhost/OAuth_Moc/function.file-get-contents>]: > failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request in * > demo.php* on line *231* > String could not be parsed as XML > > > Is this something a problem of php?... or in case you have come across such > kind of problem let me know > > Many Thanks > Akshay > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
