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    Hello geeks, today i am going to explain about how to get lat & long of a given address using Google geocode api.

    To convert an address into latitude and longitude is known as geocoding

    Here you go:

    // set geocoding url
    $geocoding_url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json';
    
    // set address here
    $address = "IIP Dehradun";
    
    // create url to hit
    $curl_url = $geocoding_url.'?address=' . urlencode($address) . '&sensor=false';
    
    // create a new cURL resource
    $ch = curl_init();
    
    // set URL
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $curl_url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    
    // grab URL and pass it to the browser; $result contains the output string
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    
    // result from querying URL. Will parse as json
    $response = json_decode($response, true);
    
    // close cURL resource, and free up system resources
    curl_close($ch);
    
    if ($response['status'] != 'OK') {
        echo 'An error has occured: ' . print_r($response);
    }
    else {
        $geometry   = $response['results'][0]['geometry'];
        $latitude   = $geometry['location']['lat'];   
        $longitude  = $geometry['location']['lng'];
    }
    

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