Get latitude and longitude using google map api - PHP
Google provides an API to get latitude and longitude based on the valid address. All we need to do is just pass address to that api. We can able to get response in various format. In below code i’m requesting api to return response a json format. If curl is enabled in your server you can use below function to get latitude and longitude by passing just address. function getLocation($address = null){ $url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='.rawurlencode($address).'&sensor=false'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url); $result=curl_exec($ch); $res = json_decode($result, true); if(isset($res['results'][0]['geometry']['location'])){ return $res['results'][0]['geometry']['location']; }else{