Question

I have seen so many functions but it happens to work only for MySQL or Postgresql. I want the equivalent logic for PHP. I’m doing some comparisons,
like I have this data that were being produced when created.

Lat: 56.130366
Long: -106.34677099999

Later on, I want to check if this coordinates will fall within a radius of another coordinates.

Lat: 57.223366
Long: -106.34675644699
radius: 100000 ( meters )

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Thanks for the help. Below is an example function that takes two sets of longitude and latitude co-ordinates and returns the distance between the two.

function getDistance($latitude1, $longitude1, $latitude2, $longitude2) {  
  $earth_radius = 6371;

  $dLat = deg2rad($latitude2 - $latitude1);  
  $dLon = deg2rad($longitude2 - $longitude1);  

  $a = sin($dLat/2) * sin($dLat/2) + cos(deg2rad($latitude1)) * cos(deg2rad($latitude2)) * sin($dLon/2) * sin($dLon/2);  
  $c = 2 * asin(sqrt($a));  
  $d = $earth_radius * $c;  

  return $d;  
}

$distance = getDistance(56.130366, -106.34677099999, 57.223366, -106.34675644699);
if ($distance < 100) {
  echo "Within 100 kilometer radius";
} else {
  echo "Outside 100 kilometer radius";
}