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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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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;

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

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

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.