How to find given address lies in a given city in laravel?

Question

I have two fields in a table, one is city and other is address. I have to find whether address lies inside city or not. How can i find this.

for fetching lat and lng of city

 $city_lat_lng =json_decode(file_get_contents("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={$ogl_city}&sensor=false"));
 $city_lat = $city_lat_lng->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
 $city_long = $city_lat_lng->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;

for fetching lat and lng of address

$address_lat_lng = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={$ogl_address}&sensor=false"));
$address_lat = $address_lat_lng->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
$address_long = $address_lat_lng->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;

In the above code, we are able to find lat long of both address and city. But don't get any proper idea of how to find whether a particular address lies inside a specific city. Both city and address dynamic here. I am new in Laravel. searched on google also but not get any proper solutions.

Does this answer your question? [Determine if Lat/Lng in Bounds](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10939408/determine-if-lat-lng-in-bounds) — erikvimz, Oct 30 '19 at 08:59
If the API only returns the centroid of the city then there's no reliable way to do this. You need to somehow get the city boundaries. Then it's just a matter of determining if a point is inside a polygon — apokryfos, Oct 30 '19 at 10:20
you have any idea how to determine boundaries of a city usin api? — Technical Solutions, Oct 30 '19 at 10:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '19 at 09:17

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You can use address_components from the API response to get the city:

$response = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={$ogl_city}&sensor=false"));
$firstOption = $response[0];

for($i=0;$i<count($firstOption['address_components']);$i++)
{
    if (in_array ("administrative_area_level_1", $firstOption['address_components'][$i]['types']))
    {
        echo "city = ". $firstOption['address_components'][$i]['long_name'].PHP_EOL;
    }
}

administrative_area_level_1 is a type of administrative area, check which types match your idea of a city here: https://developers.google.com/places/supported_types

answered Oct 30 '19 at 09:17

Eriks Klotins

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I have a random address, and a random city . i have to find whether this address lies inside this city or not. Any idea for this. then please share. – Technical Solutions Oct 30 '19 at 09:58
You can search address_components for that particular city – Eriks Klotins Oct 30 '19 at 10:54

How to find given address lies in a given city in laravel?

for fetching lat and lng of city

for fetching lat and lng of address

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