Convert Lat / Long to City / State with Google Geocode API

Use the Google Maps Geocoding API to pass lat / long coordinates to this function and return the city and state. Get a Google Maps API Key here.

// you will need a Google Maps API key - you can get one for free here:
// https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/get-api-key
$googleMapsApiKey = 'xyz';

// get the city and state associated with provided geo coordinates
function getCityState($lat, $long) {
	
    $details_url = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=" . $lat . ',' . $long . "&key=" . $googleMapsApiKey . "&sensor=false";

$ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $details_url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    $loc = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

$location = '';
    if(count($loc['results']) != 0) {
        $city = '';
        $state = '';
        foreach($loc['results'][0]['address_components'] as $addressComponent) {
            if(in_array('locality', $addressComponent['types'])) {
                $city = $addressComponent['short_name'];
            }
            if(in_array('administrative_area_level_1', $addressComponent['types'])) {
                $state = $addressComponent['short_name'];
            }
        }
        $location = $city . ', ' . $state;
    }

return $location;
}

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Convert Lat / Long to City / State with Google Geocode API

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