Question

I have a function that calculates the distance between two GPS coordinates. I then get all the coordinates from the database and loop through them all to get the distance between the current one and the previous one, then add that to an array for the specific GPS device. For some reason it is return NaN. I have tried casting it as a double, an int, and rounding the number.

Here is my PHP code:

function distance($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2) {
      $lat1 = round($lat1, 3);
      $lon1 = round($lon1, 3);
      $lat2 = round($lat2, 3);
      $lon2 = round($lon2, 3);
      $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 = $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
      if($miles < 0) $miles = $miles * -1;
      return ($miles * 1.609344);  
}
$this->db->query("SELECT * FROM `gps_loc` WHERE `imeiN`='" . $sql . "' AND `updatetime`>=$timeLimit ORDER BY `_id` DESC");
    $dist = array();
    $dist2 = array();
    while($row = $this->db->getResults()) {
        $dist2[$row['imeiN']] = 0;
        $dist[$row['imeiN']][]["lat"] = $row['lat'];
        $dist[$row['imeiN']][count($dist[$row['imeiN']]) - 1]["lng"] = $row['lon'];
    }

    foreach($dist as $key=>$d) {
        $a = 0;
        $b = 0;
        foreach($dist[$key] as $n) {
            if($a > 0) {
                $dist2[$key] += $this->distance($n['lat'], $n['lng'], $dist[$key][$a - 1]['lat'], $dist[$key][$a - 1]['lng']);
            }
            $a++;
        }

    }
    echo json_encode($dist2);

Answer 1

The values you are pulling from the database may be strings, which would cause this issue.

You may also want to check the issues that Kolink raised in his post.