If you want to get the latitude and longitude from an address using PHP then try the following code snippet:

$geoResult = file_get_contents('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=' . urlencode($addressString) . '&sensor=false&key=API');
if ($geoResult !== FALSE) {
$output= json_decode($geoResult);
@$lat = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
@$long = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;
if ($output->status == 'OK') {
if ($lat > NULL) {
//do something
}
}
}

The following code writes to a file, it will overwrite the current contents of the file:


$string = "file contents goes here";
$myFile = "file.php";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $string);
fclose($fh);


Make sure you give file.php write access on the server (Apache chmod 775 normally works).

This function will limit the number of words shown if the total character limit is over a certain number and add … after the string. Very useful if you want to trim titles or anywhere where you are limited by space:


function limitCharacters($string){
$count = strlen($string);
// change 50 to the number of characters you want to check for
if($count > 50){
//change 5 to the number of words you want to limit to.
//change ... to anything you want to use to show its clipped
$newstring = implode(' ',array_slice(explode(' ',$string),0,5)).'...';
}else{
$newstring = $string;
}
return $newstring;
}


To call the function simply use:

limitCharacters($mystring);


At the prompt type:

php -v