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Comment on Asynchronous cURL Requests by 86er » 使用PHP进行异步HTTP请求

86er » 使用PHP进行异步HTTP请求 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:20:23 +0000

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Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Stuart Turner

Stuart Turner — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:58:50 +0000

Many thanks for providing a new version to cope with Google’s recent change.

Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Paul Norman

Paul Norman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:07:48 +0000

Hi Gobinath,

Seems Google has changed their system a bit and the Lon / Lat handling has been updated as has the HTML output.

Hopefully this new simplified version will work well! (for a while…)

Cheers,

Paul

Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Gobinath

Gobinath — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:51:28 +0000

Hi,

I have used your code for distance calculation for past 3 months, from 12-1-2012 onwards its not working in my server, kindly give me any idea asap.

Siva

Comment on Asynchronous cURL Requests by Paul Norman

Paul Norman — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:50:58 +0000

@Brad, you can use exec assuming you have the correct system permissions (and a framework / script that is CLI happy) and append something like “> /dev/null 2>/dev/null &” to your exec call to make it asynchronous (re-routes stdio and stderr to null values and makes the process ‘background’). As to the overhead? I’m not sure what you mean, but I’d imagine in real terms any resource / speed difference is minimal. cURL also makes it trivial to pass GET / POST variables to the script for security / to stop external users triggering the script. If you are using a shared server I’d say giving +x permissions to a script available to the standard web user poses a greater potential for abuse…

There’s another nice exec example here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45953/php-execute-a-background-process#45966

Comment on Asynchronous cURL Requests by Brad

Brad — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:14:56 +0000

Wouldn’t a better option to be to use exec and call the php file directly? With this technique, you’re incurring a lot of extra overhead as well as opening up a “background” script to the abuse of the internet at large.

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Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Paul Norman

Paul Norman — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:24:20 +0000

Hi Folarin,

Sorry for the late response, but I’ve been quite ill recently. I’m not 100% sure what you are asking for here. If you want to check the distance of one location to 5 others then simply call it 5 times. But if you want to input 5 locations and calculate the route distance you’ll need to format your destination differently, for example:

get_driving_information(‘edinburgh’, ‘preston+to:london+to:arundel’);

and this will simply return one figure for the whole trip.

Good luck!

Paul

Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Paul Norman

Paul Norman — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:17:00 +0000

Hi Chamu,

Sorry for the late response, but I’ve been quite ill recently. You’re not the first person to say that and all I can think of is that it’s something to do with Google detecting your server’s IP address and determining that you are not allowed to use their service in that way in that location. Where is your server out of curiosity?

Cheers,

Paul

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Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Chamu

Chamu — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:26:17 +0000

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the code, The code was working in local server but is not working in the server when uploaded.

it is going to the exception could not find route,
Could you please help?

Thanks
Chamu

Comment on Using Google to Calculate Driving Distance / Time in PHP by Folarin

Folarin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:24:26 +0000

Hi Paul,

Firstly, i appreciate your effort on this Php script that help to calculate distance in a flexible way.

Secondly, i have problem which you might be able to help out.

I’m trying to calculate distance between one postcode and multiple postcode generated from database but i did not get any result.

One to one postcode or town work perfectly but one to many postcode is not working for me. Please, if you have an idea on this issue, i will be very grateful.

Thanks.