{"id":130,"date":"2008-04-09T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T05:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-04-09T22:47:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T05:47:35","slug":"well-a-php-example-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Well, a PHP example, anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once I dove in and started messing around, I only had to fix two typos as the example I was working on seems to work correctly, at least to the extent that I’ve tested it. I now have what appears to be a working example of Geostring<\/a> parsing in PHP. In this case, the example reads my feed from the Twitter website<\/a>, sifts out any geostring tags it finds, then generates Google Maps links for each one found. As I write this, there are two geostring tags on that page, representing places (and times)
\nthat I have actually been, and it seems to work.<\/p>\n

You can take a look at the source code for the example here<\/a>, or see it in action here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Feel free to grab a copy to play with if you’d like (or write one yourself that isn’t so messy – hey, as someone who doesn’t consider himself a professional “coder”, I’m just happy that it did exactly what I wanted it to do on the first try…). You should only need to worry about two things – changing the $text_to_read, and whether or not your web server (or CLI<\/span>) has fopen wrappers turned on so the script can read another web page if you use a web page as your text to parse rather than a local file.<\/p>\n

Since generating<\/em> a geostring tag is trivial, I didn’t bother trying to incorporate that into this example. If you want one, then here:<\/p>\n

<?php
\n\/\/generate a geostr tag with the most typical information only
\n\/\/point not part of a track nor including heading or angle
\n$lat=44.027168;
\n$lon=-111.297892;
\n$elev=”1711.9m”; \/\/could leave off the “m” and treat as float, since it defaults to “meters”
\n$timestamp=”20071125T123438-06″; \/\/6 hours behind UTC<\/p>\n

print(“geostr:$lat,$lon,$elev:$timestamp:geostr”);
\n\/\/”full” version: print(“geostr:$lat,$lon,$elev:$timestamp,:,:geostr”);
\n\/\/completely unnecessary, but legal
\n?><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As always, comments and suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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