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File: example.php
Role: Example script
Content type: text/plain
Description: Explains how to use the GeoLocation class by instantiating one
Class: PHP Geo Location
Get geographic details of a world location by name
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Date: 8 years ago
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<?php
   
/*
        This package is distributed with a composer.json file.
        If you have composer installed, you have to install the contents of the file
        It creates an autoload class that contains the Unirest Class.
        For users without composer, you need to download the Unirest class provided by Mashape.
        You can find it on Github.

        After getting the necessary autoloads, you need to require the vendor/autoload.php file
        so that the Unirest class can be included in your script. Then include the geolocation.class.php
        class too.
    */

   
require_once("vendor/autoload.php");
    require_once(
"geolocation.class.php");
   
    use
Unirest\Request; //We use the Request class thats created in the Unirest namespace to make life easier later on

   
$geoLocation = new GeoLocation(new Request()); //Instantiate the GeoLocation() class, accepts a Unirest\Request Object (class) as parameter

   
$locationToSearchFor = "Abuja"; //This can be any place in the world. It can be a city, village, country, state and so on.

   
$location = $geoLocation->getLocation($locationToSearchFor); //queries the api server for the complete geo-data of the location you searched for

    /*
        You can var_dump or print_r the $location variable to get a full look at the values returned by the getLocation() method
    */
   
$matches = $geoLocation->getMatches(); //the getLocation method returns more than one result, you use this method to count the number of results returned
   
    /* We loop through all the results returned below */
   
for ($count = 0; $count < $matches; $count++)
    {
        echo
"Name: ".$geoLocation->getName($count) . "<br/>"; //The name of the current matched result
       
echo "Type: ".$geoLocation->getType($count) . "<br/>"; //The type, could be city, country, state and so on
       
echo "Country: ".$geoLocation->getCountry($count) ."<br/>"; //The country where the matched result is located
       
echo "Zip Code: ".$geoLocation->getZipCode($count) . "<br/>"; //the zip code of the location that's searched for
       
echo "Magic Code: ".$geoLocation->getMagicCode($count) . "<br/>"; //The magic code of the matched result
       
echo "WMO Identifier: ".$geoLocation->getWMOID($count). "<br/>"; //The WMO Identifier
       
echo "Time Zone: ".$geoLocation->getTimeZone($count)."<br/>"; //The current time zone of the matched result
       
echo "Standard Time Zone Abbreviation: ".$geoLocation->getStandardTimeZone($count)."<br/>"; //returns the abbreviated standard time zone
       
echo "Longitude: ".$geoLocation->getLongitude($count)."<br/>"; //returns the longitude of the location returned
       
echo "Latitude: ".$geoLocation->getLatitude($count)."<br/>"; //returns the latitude of the returned location
       
echo "<hr/>"; //an horizontal rule to separate our results
   
}


   
/* You can browse through the geolocation.class.php file to get further details about the methods and
        look at other ways you can achieve the same task. for instance you could also get the longitude of a
        place by doing this:
            echo $geoLocation->getLatLong($count)["Lon"];
    */