Pods CMS » Packages » Google Geocoding V3

Google Geocoding v3

Version 1.0.1 added 4 months ago by gr0b1

{"meta":{"version":"187","build":"1273255270"},"helpers":[{"name":"pre_save_geocode","helper_type":"pre_save","phpcode":"<?php\n$name = $columns['name']['value']; \/\/ grab the content of the \"name\" field in your pod\n$adresse = $columns['adresse']['value']; \/\/ grab the content of the \"adresse\" field in your pod\n$ville = $columns['ville']['value']; \/\/ grab the content of the \"ville\" field in your pod, ville is french for town\n\n$badstrings = array (\" \",\"'\",\"-\",\"<br>\"); \/\/ strings we shouldn't pass in the url\n$goodstrings = array (\"+\",\"\",\",\",\"\"); \/\/ strings we are going to replace them with\n\t\n$nicename = str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$name); \/\/ convert place name to a url compatible name\n$niceadresse = str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$adresse); \/\/ convert address to url compatible address\n$niceville =  str_replace($badstrings,$goodstrings,$ville); \/\/ convert town to a url compatible town\n$url = $nicename.\",\".$niceadresse.\",\".$niceville; \/\/ add them all together\n$niceurl = strtolower($url); \/\/ make sure it is all lowercase, not sure why i did this :)\n\n$geourl = \"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/api\/geocode\/json?address=\".$niceurl.\"&sensor=false\";\n$geoinfo = file_get_contents($geourl); \/\/ get the geocoded info back in json format into the variable you could use curl for better performance but this is more compatible\n$decoded = json_decode($geoinfo); \/\/ decode json geoinfo into an object\n\nif ($decoded->status == \"OK\" && (empty($columns['lat']['value']) || empty($columns['long']['value'])) )  \/\/ make sure value is returned and allow manual change\n{\n$columns['lat']['value'] = $decoded->results[0]->geometry->location->lat; \/\/ copy lat into the field called lat in your pod\n$columns['long']['value'] = $decoded->results[0]->geometry->location->lng; \/\/ copy long into the field called long in your pod\n}"}]}

1.0.1 Notes

About this Package

This is a pre-save helper that will take the values from columns in your pod like name and address and use The Google Geocoding Web Service to return a lat and lng value into columns called "lat" and "lng" in you pod.<br />
This package requests json back from google, it contains more than just the lat and lng values, see the appropriate section outlining the response format.<br />
Make sure you check out the helper and change the column names to reflect the ones in your pod.