anthony-mills / google-places

PHP wrapper class for the Google Places API

PHP wrapper for using the Google Places API. Based on the GPLV2 class created by André Nosalsky.

BASIC USAGE

<?php
require_once('googlePlaces.php');

$apiKey       = 'Your Google Places API Key';
$googlePlaces = new googlePlaces($apiKey);

// Set the longitude and the latitude of the location you want to search near for places
$latitude   = '-33.8804166';
$longitude = '151.2107662';
$googlePlaces->setLocation($latitude . ',' . $longitude);

$googlePlaces->setRadius(5000);
$results = $googlePlaces->search(); //

A search query can be run again for a fresh set of results using the "paging" functionality that was recently added to the API.

To use simply perform a place search as per normal, and then call the repeat method afterward with the 'next_page_token' element returned by the first search eg.

$firstSearch = $googlePlaces->Search();

if (!empty($firstSearch['next_page_token'])) {
	$secondSearch = $googlePlaces->repeat($firstSearch['next_page_token']);
}

The repeat function can be used twice for each search function allowing up to 60 individual results for each search request.

Proxy

When you use deployment server that changes IP address each time you run a new build, you may want to funnel your request through only one IP address. Therefore, you can allow only that single IP in Google Developers Console server key. For that purpose you should setup proxy to route your Google Maps API requests through that.

When your proxy is set up, you can use it with googlePlaces.

$proxy = [];
$proxy["host"] = "your host name";
$proxy["port"] = 8080;
$proxy["username"] = "your username"; //optional with password
$proxy["password"] = "your password";
$apiKey       = 'Your Google Places API Key';
$googlePlaces = new googlePlaces($apiKey, $proxy);

google-places's Issues

google place detail issue

I have the follow code

require_once(DIR . '/../../../assets/google/googlePlaces.php');

    $apiKey       = 'xxxx';
    $googlePlaces = new GooglePlaces\googlePlaces($apiKey);
    $googlePlaces->setPlaceId('ChIJ67bX6M6w3IARpKYGn3F-LOc');

    $result = $googlePlaces->details();

and it's return empty, do you know why? can you please help?

In the sample code longitude is spelled "longitiude" with an extra i

In the sample code longitude is spelled "longitiude" with an extra i

Why echo?

Been using this class for a bit now... why does the _curlCall method echo out the post opts? Is this necessary?

googlePlaces::_formatResults() does not format the results correctly

googlePlaces::_formatResults() line 193, initializes $address_street_number, $address_street_name, $address_state etc to empty each time in for loop. This causes all the values to be empty if they are not present in last loop of foreach even though they are found in previously. This is resulting to empty value of all these strings in most of the results.

Can not set a RankBy parameter

In the Docs:

rankby — Specifies the order in which results are listed. Possible values are:
1. prominence (default). This option sorts results based on their importance. Ranking will favor prominent places within the specified area. Prominence can be affected by a Place's ranking in Google's index, the number of check-ins from your application, global popularity, and other factors.
2.distance. This option sorts results in ascending order by their distance from the specified location. Ranking results by distance will set a fixed search radius of 50km. One or more of keyword, name, or types is required.

I'll have a PR for it soon

Params encoding

Be careful when setting name param on searches. It's required to urlencode them in order to get the expected results; otherwise it won't work. From my point of view, it should be done inside the googlePlaces class, but I think the creator doesn't think like me.

Anyway, I'd like to thank the author for this work. It still has saved me some time.

How to search with multiple keywords?

I see the setKeyword function can only do one keyword at a time. How can I search for multiple keywords?

Not an issue but could you could use

function distance($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2, $unit) {

    $theta = $lon1 - $lon2;
    $dist = sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) +  cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) * cos(deg2rad($theta));
    $dist = acos($dist);
    $dist = rad2deg($dist);
    $miles = $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
    $unit = strtoupper($unit);

    if ($unit == "K") {
        return ($miles * 1.609344);
    } else if ($unit == "N") {
        return ($miles * 0.8684);
    } else {
        return substr($miles,0,3);
    }

}

Here is code that will calculate the distance between two distances if you want it.
Nice for seeing how far a place is from you

Next Page Token sometimes doesn't work.

Running the next page token code to get more than 20 results doesn't work half of the time. Do I need to put a delay before calling the next pages, since Google may be limiting the number of requests.

Repeat function is not working right now

Im using this code, and I'm getting a 'Invaled Request' without errors: [results] => Array ( ) [status] => INVALID_REQUEST ) {"errors":[],"result":[]}

// Set the longitude and the latitude of the location you want to search near for places
$latitude   = '40.383333';
$longitude = '-3.716667';
$googlePlaces->setLocation($latitude . ',' . $longitude);
$googlePlaces->setTypes("parking");
$googlePlaces->setRadius(10000);
$results = $googlePlaces->Search();
// echo json_encode($results);


if (!empty($results['next_page_token'])) {
    //echo $results['next_page_token'];
    $secondSearch = $googlePlaces->repeat($results['next_page_token']);
    echo json_encode($secondSearch);
}

Does somebody know what is happening here?

googlePlaces::_formatResults() removes next_page_token

I'll send a PR once the first PR is accepted. I should have made separate branches for individual fixes :-P

I basically added

if (isset($result['next_page_token'])) {
            $formattedResults['next_page_token'] = $result['next_page_token'];
        }

to the end of googlePlaces::_formatResults() before:

return $formattedResults;

Missing Key And Formatting Errors

Had to modify this:
protected function _formatParametersForURL() {
if (!empty($this->_address)) {
return self::ADDRESS_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_address .
'&'.self::COMPONENTS_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_components .
'&'.self::LANGUAGE_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_language .
'&'.self::BOUNDS_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_bounds .
'&'.self::REGION_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_region .
'&'.self::SENSOR_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_sensor;
}
else {
return self::LAT_LNG_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_latlng .
'&'.self::COMPONENTS_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_components .
'&'.self::LANGUAGE_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_language .
'&'.self::BOUNDS_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_bounds .
'&'.self::REGION_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_region .
'&'.self::SENSOR_FIELD_NAME.'='.$this->_sensor;
}

And add $URLToCall = $this->_apiUrl . '/' . $this->_outputType . '?key='.$this->_apiKey . '&' . $urlParameters; @ line 54.

Use release function

Hi there,

is it possible that you create tags/releases for your repo. It would be awesome, so composer can download (instead of clone) the package.

setIncludeDetails implementation

It looks like setIncludeDetails it's not implemented yet. Any plans to implement it ? It would make a nice addition.

Add place error (Invalid Request)

Location fields must be casted to floats in order to get the expected result... It throws an Invalid Request if you send them as strings as they are.

How can I install it using composer to integrate it in my laravel 5.1 project?

I have laravel 5.1 project and wanted to integrate this api, how can I add this as dependency in my composer.json

[Google-Places---PHP-] Class google place

Hello, how are you?
Congratulations for the work, Google is class place is very good!
I wonder if it is possible to have an update in the following methods.

Method of delete: The parameter that needs to go is the parameter is of reference and is currently in the class request the place_id.

Method of Checkin: The parameter that needs to go is the parameter is of reference and also it needs to be sent via POST, the same as delete and add the method.

Abs

is this project still live and class is working ?

add a composer.json file

So we can use it with http://getcomposer.org/ and search it on https://packagist.org/.

Paging

Google places api now (not sure how recent) offers paging for up to 3 pages. Do you have any interest in adding that to your api?