PHP: Get Latitude/Longitude using Google Maps API

Here is a quick PHP code to fetch latitude and longitude of any given place using Google Maps API.

CURL is used to fetch data from the API URL.

$address = "Kathmandu, Nepal";
$url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=".urlencode($address);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$responseJson = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$response = json_decode($responseJson);

if ($response->status == 'OK') {
	$latitude = $response->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
	$longitude = $response->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;
	echo 'Latitude: ' . $latitude; 	
	echo '<br />'; 	
	echo 'Longitude: ' . $longitude;
} else {
	echo $response->status;
	var_dump($response);
	exit;
}

Hope this helps. Thanks.