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sephtian
sephtian

Reputation: 455

how to parse JSON google maps JSON in php

how to parse JSON google maps JSON in php

i have do it in xml, but the coordinates driving direction's not complete as i get with JSON, how we can get all coordinate driving with JSON in php?

if we do using xml

$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin='.$origin.'&destination='.$dest.'&sensor=false');
$startlat = $xml->xpath("/DirectionsResponse/route/leg/step/start_location/lat");
$startlng = $xml->xpath("/DirectionsResponse/route/leg/step/start_location/lng");
$distanceeach = $xml->xpath("/DirectionsResponse/route/leg/step/distance/value");
$distance = $xml->xpath("/DirectionsResponse/route/leg/distance/value");

but how to do with json? and i want my variable $startlat, $startlng, etc, contains same value if we do with xml

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1351

Answers (1)

devdRew
devdRew

Reputation: 4571

You can retrieve data in JSON format, and then use json_decode() function to build stdClass object, then you can recursively walk through object's property to convert it into (array) $response as this.

And then use Google Maps API response as an array. You can proceed with no converting to array, and use object of stdClass like this:

$response->DirectionsResponse->route->leg->step->start_location->lat;

To get the correct values you can always var_dump() you response object, and see what you want to get.

Hope, that helps.

Here is the code for usage Google JSON response from Google Translate API... which is much the same, as you need:

if (!is_null($json = json_decode(file_get_contents($url)))
{
    return $json->data->translations[0]->translatedText;
}

That's it...

Upvotes: 1

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