Re: [PHP] Zip Search

2010-04-16 Thread tedd 

At 3:21 PM -0400 4/15/10, Jack wrote:

Hello All,

Can anyone recommend a good open source zip code search application and
database?

Thanks,

Jack


Do you mean something like this:

http://php1.net/b/zipcode/

Cheers,

tedd

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Re: [PHP] Zip Search

2010-04-15 Thread Jason Pruim 


On Apr 15, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Jack wrote:


Hello All,



Can anyone recommend a good open source zip code search application  
and

database?


If it's us zip's you want... I'd go straight to the source... 
http://www.usps.com/zip4/welcome.htm?from=home_header&page=findazipcode

The post office also does have API's for hooking into it if you can  
handle the restrictions since they are the government :)


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Re: [PHP] Zip Search

2010-04-15 Thread Nathan Nobbe 
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Tommy Pham  wrote:

> > -Original Message-
> > From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:quickshif...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:41 PM
> > To: Jack
> > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Zip Search
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jack  wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend a good open source zip code search application
> > and
> > > database?
> > >
> >
> > depends on what you want, u.s., canada & mexico are pretty easy to find
> > but
> > for other non domestic countries if you find something good feel free
> > to
> > share :)
> >
> > for a nice freebie that works on u.s. locations, snag the geoip
> > extension
> > from pecl -
> >
> > http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php
> >
> > -nathan
>
> IIRC, geoip is lookup based on host name or IP address for country, region,
> city, etc... similar to whois for DNS.  I think the OP wants to look
> geographic information, such as city, county, state/province, etc..., based
> on a given zip code like 92723.
>

ahh, perhaps a hasty reply on my part - heres a nice freebie mentioned by
geoip -

http://geocoder.ibegin.com/downloads.php

-nathan

RE: [PHP] Zip Search

2010-04-15 Thread Tommy Pham 
> -Original Message-
> From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:quickshif...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:41 PM
> To: Jack
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Zip Search
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jack  wrote:
> 
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good open source zip code search application
> and
> > database?
> >
> 
> depends on what you want, u.s., canada & mexico are pretty easy to find
> but
> for other non domestic countries if you find something good feel free
> to
> share :)
> 
> for a nice freebie that works on u.s. locations, snag the geoip
> extension
> from pecl -
> 
> http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php
> 
> -nathan

IIRC, geoip is lookup based on host name or IP address for country, region, 
city, etc... similar to whois for DNS.  I think the OP wants to look geographic 
information, such as city, county, state/province, etc..., based on a given zip 
code like 92723.

Regards,
Tommy


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Re: [PHP] Zip Search

2010-04-15 Thread Nathan Nobbe 
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jack  wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Can anyone recommend a good open source zip code search application and
> database?
>

depends on what you want, u.s., canada & mexico are pretty easy to find but
for other non domestic countries if you find something good feel free to
share :)

for a nice freebie that works on u.s. locations, snag the geoip extension
from pecl -

http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php

-nathan