How to calculate distance from lat/long in php?

Question

What I am trying to do is I have entries in the database which have a lat/long stored with them. I want to calculate the distance between users lat/long and entries lat/long

Answer 1

http://www.geodatasource.com/developers/php

<?php

/*::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::  This routine calculates the distance between two points (given the     :*/
/*::  latitude/longitude of those points). It is being used to calculate     :*/
/*::  the distance between two locations using GeoDataSource(TM) Products    :*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::  Definitions:                                                           :*/
/*::    South latitudes are negative, east longitudes are positive           :*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::  Passed to function:                                                    :*/
/*::    lat1, lon1 = Latitude and Longitude of point 1 (in decimal degrees)  :*/
/*::    lat2, lon2 = Latitude and Longitude of point 2 (in decimal degrees)  :*/
/*::    unit = the unit you desire for results                               :*/
/*::           where: 'M' is statute miles                                   :*/
/*::                  'K' is kilometers (default)                            :*/
/*::                  'N' is nautical miles                                  :*/
/*::  Worldwide cities and other features databases with latitude longitude  :*/
/*::  are available at http://www.geodatasource.com                          :*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::  For enquiries, please contact sales@geodatasource.com                  :*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::  Official Web site: http://www.geodatasource.com                        :*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::         GeoDataSource.com (C) All Rights Reserved 2014                  :*/
/*::                                                                         :*/
/*::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*/
function distance($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2, $unit) {

  $theta = $lon1 - $lon2;
  $dist = sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) +  cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) * cos(deg2rad($theta));
  $dist = acos($dist);
  $dist = rad2deg($dist);
  $miles = $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
  $unit = strtoupper($unit);

  if ($unit == "K") {
    return ($miles * 1.609344);
  } else if ($unit == "N") {
      return ($miles * 0.8684);
    } else {
        return $miles;
      }
}

echo distance(32.9697, -96.80322, 29.46786, -98.53506, "M") . " Miles<br>";
echo distance(32.9697, -96.80322, 29.46786, -98.53506, "K") . " Kilometers<br>";
echo distance(32.9697, -96.80322, 29.46786, -98.53506, "N") . " Nautical Miles<br>";

?>

Answer 2

Simple and easiest way

<?php
    $lat1 = Yourstart_latitude;
    $lon1 = Yourstart_longitude;
    $lat2 = Yourend_latitude;
    $lon2 = Yourend_longitude;
    $theta = $lon1 - $lon2;
    $dist = sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) +cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) * cos(deg2rad($theta));
                              $dist = acos($dist);
                              $dist = rad2deg($dist);
                              $miles= $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
                              $unit = 'K';
                                $km   = $miles*1.609344;
                              echo number_format($km,1);
                            ?>

Answer 3

Use distance-matrix google api to calculate distance between latitude and longitude.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 
    'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/distancematrix/json?origins='.$prev_add.'&destinations='.$curr_add.'&key=keyyouhavetogenerate'
);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
$array = json_decode($content);
$obj = json_decode($content, TRUE);

$distance = $obj['rows'][0]['elements'][0]['distance']['text'];

to use this api you will need key,to know more about how to generate key visit https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distance-matrix/intro