Re: Calculating driving distance between UK postcodes

On Friday, May 4, 2012 at 10:18, Terry Ally (Gmail) wrote: > Google works in Javascript extensively - not a language with which I > have in-depth experience hence my reason for asking for PHP solution. > > For example the following will get me a JSON output with the distance in > Kms and time. I don't know how to get PHP to read this information and > extract just the distance. I need the distance so that I can calculate cost > of a trip. > > <form id="google" action=" > http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json" > method="get"> > <input type="text" name="origins" value="" /> > <input type="text" name="destinations" value="" /> > <input type="hidden" name="sensor" value="false"> > <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="1"> > <br><a type="submit" > > onClick="document.getElementById('google').submit()"><strong><strong>Get > Distance</strong></strong></a> > </form> > > > > > > On 4 May 2012 15:08, David OBrien <dgobrien@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Google is still your friend > > > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Terry Ally (Gmail) <terryally@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have a working/example PHP script that calculates driving > > > distances between UK postcodes that they can share? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > > > *Terry Ally* > > > > > > Twitter.com/terryally > > > Facebook.com/terryally > > > ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > > > To print or not to print this email is the environmentally-searching > > > question! > > > Which has the highest ecological cost? A sheet of paper or constantly > > > switching on your computer and connecting to the Internet to read your > > > email? > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2296087/using-php-and-google-maps-api-to-work-out-distance-between-2-post-codes-uk > > > > > -- > *Terry Ally* > Twitter.com/terryally > Facebook.com/terryally > ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > To print or not to print this email is the environmentally-searching > question! > Which has the highest ecological cost? A sheet of paper or constantly > switching on your computer and connecting to the Internet to read your > email? > > You should look into curl. Make a post request with the form data as post payload. -- Mike Mackintosh www.HighOnPHP.com