Question

Would there be a way to do a zip code lookup based on City/State input in a form? I’m thinking the Google geocode API might be the right direction. Any thoughts? I have a site built on WordPress so the code would have to utilize PHP. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

YQL can do things like this:

select  name from geo.places.children where parent_woeid in (select woeid from geo.places where text="sunnyvale, usa" limit 1) AND placetype = 11

returns:

{
 "query": {
  "count": 6,
  "created": "2011-03-16T06:49:09Z",
  "lang": "en-US",
  "results": {
   "place": [
    {
     "name": "94086"
    },
    {
     "name": "94087"
    },
    {
     "name": "94088"
    },
    {
     "name": "94089"
    },
    {
     "name": "94090"
    },
    {
     "name": "94085"
    }
   ]
  }
 }
}

YQL Console

There are examples on there on how to implement queries like this in both PHP and Javascript on their site.