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Asked: 2026-06-14T08:25:53+00:00

I need to make a get request to google places api however I can’t

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I need to make a get request to google places api however I can’t use just javascript because it does not support jsonp. I read that I could do a get request using a php file and then do a normal jquery ajax call to that in order to get the json data. However I created the php file using

<?php
echo file_get_contents("https://maps.google...");
?>

and then using a jquery ajax request to this file hosted on my http:localhost/ server on my ubuntu distro, yet i am getting a 500 http server error. What am I doing wrong or how do I go about doing this correctly?

</script>

      <script>
      $(document).ready(function(){

      $.ajax({
      url: 'http://localhost/places.php',
      dataType: "json",
      type: "GET",
      success: function( data){
      document.getElementById("paragraph").innerHTML= data.result[0].name;
      },
      error: function(request, status, error){
      document.getElementById("paragraph").innerHTML= "error";
      }
      })


      });

</script>
    <body>
    <p id="paragraph">
       Untouched Text.
    </p>
    <button id="b1">Click Me!</button>
    </body>

The only error message I get using firebug is 500 Internal Server Error so I don’t think its my html, javascript, or jquery.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are calling Google API and must return a JSON, so this ought to be enough:

    <?php
    $json = file_get_contents("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=true_or_false");

    $data = json_decode($json);

    // manipulate data and rebuild json with $json = json_encode($data) if needed

    Header("Content-Type: application/json");
    die($json);
?>

    This works, in that Google answers me with a correctly formed, if succinct, JSON:

    {

    "results": [ ],
    "status": "REQUEST_DENIED"
}

    With proper API Key configuration you ought to get this working. Check that the call is working in your browser (without cookies, etc. – a clean session, which is what file_get_contents() is going to give you) and that your PHP installation is capable of recovering SSL data (it should, but let’s check), i.e.,

    file_get_contents("https://www.google.com/");

    ought to recover Google’s home page.

    This call needs no authentication (there’s a rate limit, but I think it’s unlikely you’ll be making all the calls required to get you shut out):

    http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?origin=Toronto&destination=Montreal&sensor=false

    The above will return a very complex JSON with possibly accented characters in. Now that I come to think of it, the Header above would be better like this:

        Header('Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8');
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