README

PHP wrapper for using the Google Places API. Based on the GPLV2 class created by André Nosalsky.

BASIC USAGE

<?php
require_once('googlePlaces.php');

$apiKey       = 'Your Google Places API Key';
$googlePlaces = new googlePlaces($apiKey);

// Set the longitude and the latitude of the location you want to search near for places
$latitude   = '-33.8804166';
$longitude = '151.2107662';
$googlePlaces->setLocation($latitude . ',' . $longitude);

$googlePlaces->setRadius(5000);
$results = $googlePlaces->search(); //

A search query can be run again for a fresh set of results using the "paging" functionality that was recently added to the API.

To use simply perform a place search as per normal, and then call the repeat method afterward with the 'next_page_token' element returned by the first search eg.

$firstSearch = $googlePlaces->Search();

if (!empty($firstSearch['next_page_token'])) {
	$secondSearch = $googlePlaces->repeat($firstSearch['next_page_token']);
}

The repeat function can be used twice for each search function allowing up to 60 individual results for each search request.

Proxy

When you use deployment server that changes IP address each time you run a new build, you may want to funnel your request through only one IP address. Therefore, you can allow only that single IP in Google Developers Console server key. For that purpose you should setup proxy to route your Google Maps API requests through that.

When your proxy is set up, you can use it with googlePlaces.

$proxy = [];
$proxy["host"] = "your host name";
$proxy["port"] = 8080;
$proxy["username"] = "your username"; //optional with password
$proxy["password"] = "your password";
$apiKey       = 'Your Google Places API Key';
$googlePlaces = new googlePlaces($apiKey, $proxy);