Using PHP (curl) to pull data from JSON (Google Maps API)

Question

I\'m fairly new to JSON, and I\'m trying to get the latitude and longitude of a geocoded city from the Google Maps API using curl. The function I\'m using is:

Answer 1

You just need this :

$fullurl = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=true";
$string .= file_get_contents($fullurl); // get json content
$json_a = json_decode($string, true); //json decoder

echo $json_a['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']; // get lat for json
echo $json_a['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']; // get ing for json