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Informations about the package google-places-api

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Google Places API.

This is a PHP wrapper for Google Places API Web Service. And is Laravel Framework friendly.

About Package

With just 2 lines of code you can request to any google places api feature. No need to manually perform any curl requests.

The following place requests are available:

Installation

Install it with composer

Usage

Laravel user can see the Laravel Usage section

Step 1 - Import the class using namespace

Step 2 - Initiate the object

Note: You can also set the API KEY after initiating the class using setKey('KEY') method. You can chain this with method with any other methods.

Step 3 - Start Using the Api.

Example:

As mentioned earlier just 2 lines of code to make any request.

Full example:


Use with Laravel

For Laravel 5.5 and up

Auto Discovery added.

For Laravel 5.4 and below

Step 1

Set up the service provider and facade in the config\app.php

Step 2

publish the config file with following artisan command

This will create google.php file in the config directory.

Set the API KEY in this config file.

Set 3

Start using the package using Facade.


Response

The response returned is a Laravel's Collection so that you can perform any of the available collection methods on it.

If you are not familiar with Laravel's Collection you can either reference the docs here or you can use response as simple array.

Available Methods

Place Search

nearbySearch($location, $radius = null, $params = [])

textSearch($query, $params = [])

findPlace($input, $inputType, $params = [])


Place Details

placeDetails($placeId, $params = [])


Place Autocomplete

placeAutocomplete($input, $params = [])


Query Autocomplete

queryAutocomplete($input, $params = [])


Place Photo

photo($photoReference, $params = [])


Custom Headers

withHeaders(array $headers)

Call This method before any other methods to set the headers. You can chain this method.

new PlacesApi($key = null, $verifySSL = true, array $headers = [])

To have custom headers set for every call, you can pass 3rd parameter as the headers to class constructor.

Note: For Laravel Users, you can set this in config file with key headers


Additional Methods

getStatus()

This will return the status of the response send by google api. Use it after making any request.

getKey()

This will return the API KEY been used with the requests.

setKey($key)

This will set the API KEY.

verifySSL($verifySSL = true)

You can pass false to disable Verification of SSL Certification.

Note: For Laravel Users, you can set this in config file with key verify_ssl

Or You can Pass the path to the certificate.

Exceptions

Google Places API may throw various exceptions based on the given $params or response and is located in the Flarone\GoogleApi\Exceptions namespace.

If any of these exception has been thrown, you can use the getErrorMessage() method to get the error_message field from the response if any is provided. Note: error_message field is not guaranteed to be always present, and its content is subject to change.

Contribution

Feel free to report issues or make Pull Requests. If you find this document can be improved in any way, please feel free to open an issue for it.

License

This Google Places Api was forked from skagarwal/google-places-api. The Google Places Api is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license


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illuminate/support Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0|^9.0|^10.0
illuminate/container Version ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0|^9.0|^10.0
guzzlehttp/guzzle Version ^6.5.7|^7.4.4
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