Posted by Manuel Lemos on 01/30/08 23:39

Hello,

on 01/30/2008 06:34 PM laredotornado@zipmail.com said the following:
> I'm using php 4.4.4. What I want to do is hopefully simple. If I
> type this URL into my browser:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=980+PEMART+AVE+PEEKSKILL,+NY+10566&output=csv&

key=ABQIAAAAuHEWowxYzDRtZwy5bJee6RRepaxJ09NBCcZ4ddHPnTvG1CBwlxTqGOXX0DHtp5WHcsP7cJ-K0vvurg
>
> I get a simple comma-delimited list of data. What I would like to do
> is in my PHP script, request this URL and then put the return values
> into an array. How do I do this?

For simple requests like that, you can just call:

$csv = file_get_contents('http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?
q=980+PEMART+AVE+PEEKSKILL,+NY+10566&output=csv
&key=ABQIAAAAuHEWowxYzDRtZwy5bJee6RRepaxJ09NBCcZ4ddHPnTvG1CBwlxTqGOXX0DHtp5WHcsP7cJ-K0vvurg');


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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