rtablada/geocoder

A slim Google Geocoder for PHP and Laravel

dev-master 2013-07-01 19:39 UTC

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Geocoder

This is a simple geocode provider for PHP. By default, it uses google's geocode API but any compatible API will work.

Installation

This package can be installed using composer using composer require rtablada/geocoder.

For Laravel 4, this package and its Service Provider can be installed using php artisan package:install rtablada/geocoder.

On both, specify dev-master as the version constraint.

Use

To use this package outside of Laravel you can use

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$geocoder = new Rtablada\Geocoder\Geocoder;

var_dump($geocoder->getLocationFromQuery('Atlanta'));

The geocoder provides the following functions

Other Provided Classes

The Geocoder Package also provides two helper classes (Location and Coordinate).

The Coordinate is a simple object with lat and lng properties.

The Location object has address and coordinates properties. The coordinates is an instance of the Coordinate class.

The Location class also provides a newInstanceFromObject method to parse Google Geocode Result objects into Location objects.