James,
I know of no PHP library for making GMAPI requests, but then I never
looked for one either. :) Like you, I'm not johnny-javascript and
essentially employ the learn-by-hacking method.
Working with the geocoder in PHP is quite simple. At SpotWalla our
geoCoder is a cron-managed PHP script that utilizes curl and
json_decode. Once that's complete, you have an object that can be
easily manipulated. Here's a little snippet:
$req = curl_init();
curl_setopt(
$req,
CURLOPT_URL,
"http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?
sensor=true&latlng=$latitude,$longitude");
curl_setopt($req, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$resp = curl_exec($req);
curl_close($req);
$o = json_decode($resp);
You can also ask the geocoder for XML output instead of JSON and use
simplexml_load_string instead of json_decode. Alternatively, you can
use simplexml_load_file with the URL, but I've found it to be a little
slower than curl. Geo Coding and coordinate caching can be done
outside of writing JavaScript.
Not sure about directions and such as I've never done anything with
that.
Jason
On Oct 4, 6:47 pm, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> any ideas?
>
> On Oct 1, 5:56 pm, James <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am not a javascript developer, I am a PHP developer and so I wanted
> > to know if anyone could recommend a good PHP class to handle the API
> > calls for me to google maps. The specifics of what I need to do is:
>
> > Geocode addresses and have the coordinates avalible for me to cache in
> > a mysql database.
>
> > Ask the user for their address and provide them directions from their
> > address to a given set of cached coordinates.
>
> > Display a map for all of this, also have a failsafe for users without
> > javascript enables, such as static maps, server-side api calls, ect.
>
> > Can anyone recommend such a php class, thanks.
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