/**
* Get the latitude/longitude for a given address.
*
* Google Server-Side API geocoding is documented here:
* https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/index
*
* Required Google Geocoding API Params:
* address
* sensor=true|false
*
* Optional Google Geocoding API Params:
* bounds
* language
* region
* components
*
* @param string $address the address to geocode
* @return string $response the JSON response string
*/
function get_LatLong($address)
{
if (!isset($this->geocodeLanguage)) {
$this->geocodeLanguage = '&language=' . $this->slplus->helper->getData('map_language', 'get_item', null, 'en');
}
if (!isset($this->geocodeURL)) {
$this->geocodeURL = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false' . $this->geocodeLanguage . '&address=';
}
// Set comType if not already determined.
//
if (!isset($this->comType)) {
if (isset($this->slplus->http_handler)) {
$this->comType = 'http_handler';
} elseif (extension_loaded("curl") && function_exists("curl_init")) {
$this->comType = 'curl';
} else {
$this->comType = 'file_get_contents';
}
}
$fullURL = $this->geocodeURL . urlencode($address);
// Go fetch the data from the remote server.
//
switch ($this->comType) {
case 'http_handler':
$result = $this->slplus->http_handler->request($fullURL, array('timeout' => 3));
if ($this->slplus->http_result_is_ok($result)) {
$raw_json = $result['body'];
} else {
$raw_json = null;
}
break;
case 'curl':
$cURL = curl_init();
curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_URL, $fullURL);
curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$raw_json = curl_exec($cURL);
curl_close($cURL);
break;
case 'file_get_contents':
$raw_json = file_get_contents($fullURL);
break;
default:
$raw_json = null;
return;
}
return $raw_json;
}
