failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request

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This the code I'm using to find the latitude and longitude of place:

function coords($address){ echo $url="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=".$address; $json = file_get_contents(urlencode($url)); $data = json_decode($json, TRUE); print_r($data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']); print_r($data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']); }

However it always returns this warning:

failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request

If I use the above code in a simple procedure it works fine but not in the function.

Note: I have tried the curl_init()... method which produced the same result?

you should use urlencode inside file_get_contents instead of urldecode — Kamran
– Kamran, Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 13:24
You are using the wrong variable for $url check your variable name $add and $address — ajaykumartak
– ajaykumartak, Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 13:25

Kamran · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-29 13:31:24Z

Instead of encoding whole URL just encode the address part. The following code will work fine

$add='jamshoro phase 2'; $url="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=".urlencode($add); $json = file_get_contents($url); $data = json_decode($json, TRUE); print_r($data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']); print_r($data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']);

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