The following PHP code will help you acquire the latitude and longitude of a location (using an address, zip code, or city).
Note: Your will be required to have your own domain specific Google API key.
<?php if ($_POST['address']) { $key = ' '; //you will need yo use your own domain specific API key $address = stripslashes($_POST['address']); $addressurl = urlencode($address); $location = file("http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=".$addressurl."&output=csv&key=".$key); list ($stat,$acc,$lat,$lng) = explode(",",$location[0]); echo "LAT:".$lat." - LNG:".$lng; } ?>
Below is the HTML code which used a form to submit the address to the above PHP.
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>;" method="post"> <input name="address" type="text" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>
