varsitynewsnetwork/google-places-api

A mini library to fetch place information out of Google Places API via a text search

2.1.1 2020-09-23 20:16 UTC

Requires (Dev)

• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^6.0
• peridot-php/leo: ^1.4
• peridot-php/peridot: ^1.15
• peridot-php/peridot-prophecy-plugin: ^1.1
• peridot-php/peridot-watcher-plugin: ^1.3
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^2.3

Suggests

• guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^6.0

MIT

• Mark Boudreau
• Kristopher Wilson

README

A mini library to fetch place information out of Google Places API via a text search or a find place request

Usage

$service = new PlaceService(new GuzzleAdapter());
$service->setApiKey('YOUR_KEY_HERE');

$results = $service->textSearch('Van Andel Arena');

Formatters

The concept of formatters are baked in to allow you to easily manipulate the data returned by Google. Simply pass a callable as the second argument to textSearch() or findPlace().

For instance, if you only wanted the address of the first result:

$service = new PlaceService(new GuzzleAdapter());
$service->setApiKey('YOUR_KEY_HERE');

$results = $service->textSearch('Van Andel Arena', function (results) {
    if (count($results)) {
        return $results[0]['formatted_address'];
    }

    return null;
});

The library also ships with some standard formatters:

1. CountryStripperFormatter: Removes the country from the formatted_address
2. LatLngFormatter: Formats the results as an array of lat, lng, and address.
3. SingleResultFormatter: Grabs the first result and returns it
4. CompositeFormatter: Allows for running multiple formatters

Example:

$service = new PlaceService(new GuzzleAdapter());
$service->setApiKey('YOUR_KEY_HERE');

$result = $service->textSearch('Van Andel Arena', new CompositeFormatter([
    new SingleResultFormatter(),
    new CountryStripperFormatter(true),
    new LatLngFormatter(true)
]));

Which will yield something like:

Array
(
    [address] => 130 Fulton West, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
    [lat] => 42.962433
    [lng] => -85.671566
)