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[Jeff Wilhelm - NYPHP]

If you're going to do that you should use Google's API, otherwise when they
make a change to their HTML your code will fail.
 

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From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Anthony Papillion
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 2:37 AM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] distances between two zip codes

I had to get something like this working a few weeks ago and ended up using
Google Maps. It's not an elegant solution but it works and it's free. Go to
Google Maps and do a search. Do something like 74354 to 70601. You will
notices that on the left hand panel of the returned page will be something
like Drive: 602 mi. Look at the HTML generated. You can parse that and get
the distance. Pretty simple actually.

Hope it helps,
Anthony Papillion
OpenEMR HQ, Inc
www.openemrhq.com
(918) 926-0139


chad qian wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to program php to calculate the distance between two zip 
> codes.I only have zip codes,nothing else.How to do it?I'm completely lost.
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> chad
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