How to calculate distance from lat/long in php?

Question

What I am trying to do is I have entries in the database which have a lat/long stored with them. I want to calculate the distance between users lat/long and entries lat/long

Answer 1

Tested like 3 functions and 3 queries and only one showed good distance:

In meters:

SELECT *,
(
    (((acos(sin((".$latitude."*pi()/180)) * sin((`latitude`*pi()/180))+cos((".$latitude."*pi()/180))    * cos((`latitude`*pi()/180)) * cos(((".$longitude."- `longitude`)*pi()/180))))*180/pi())*60*1.1515*1.609344) 
    * 1000
) as `distance`
FROM `table`
ORDER BY `distance` ASC

In kilometers:

SELECT *,
(
    (((acos(sin((".$latitude."*pi()/180)) * sin((`latitude`*pi()/180))+cos((".$latitude."*pi()/180))    * cos((`latitude`*pi()/180)) * cos(((".$longitude."- `longitude`)*pi()/180))))*180/pi())*60*1.1515*1.609344) 
) as `distance`
FROM `table`
ORDER BY `distance` ASC