Geolocate an Address Using Google Maps via PHP

geolocate.php

<?php

// URL Encode the address
$address = urlencode($data['storelocator']['address']);

// Get the JSON response from google. You can also get XML by changing geocode/json to geocode/xml
$geo = file_get_contents('http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address='.$address);

// Decode the results into an Object
$result = json_decode($geo);

// If it came back ok, retrieve the latitude and longitude from the results.
if($result->status === 'OK')
{
	$lat = $result->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
	$lng = $result->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;
}