function hit($keywords, $attempt = 0, $page_token = null)
{
$geocode_api_key = '';
//put your api key here
$url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json';
$params = array("query" => $keywords, "key" => $geocode_api_key);
if ($page_token) {
$params['pagetoken'] = $page_token;
}
$url = $url . "?";
foreach ($params as $key => $value) {
$url = $url . $key . '=' . urlencode($value) . '&';
}
rtrim($url, '&');
if ($attempt > 0) {
echo "\nattempt = {$attempt}\n";
}
if ($attempt >= 5) {
echo "\n\ngiving up on {$url}\n\n";
exit;
}
$ch = new CurlHttpClient();
$ch->fetch_url($url);
$resp_raw = $ch->get_response();
echo "{$url} attempt = {$attempt}, resp_raw = {$resp_raw}\n";
$resp = json_decode($resp_raw, true);
$status = $resp['status'];
if ($status == 'OVER_QUERY_LIMIT') {
//api query limit exceeded
echo "over limit for {$keywords}";
exit;
}
if ($status == 'ZERO_RESULTS') {
echo 'zero results';
exit;
}
if ($status != 'OK') {
usleep(500000);
return hit($keywords, $attempt + 1);
}
$page_token = isset($resp['next_page_token']) ? $resp['next_page_token'] : null;
return array($resp['results'], $page_token);
}
