yahoo maps api curl settings

Question

How should I configure cURL to retrieve data from the yahoo maps api?

Here is the current code

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5000);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $geocodeurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);

Which returns a 400 - Bad request HTML file. I've checked $geocodeurl and it is a valid XML file, so I figure the problem must be the cURL options?

$geocodeurl is

 http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?appid=** My App ID **&q=Battle%20Creek,MI&gflags=R

do you use the http:// (or https://) in front of the URL? Maybe you could share the $geocodeurl — Rene Pot, May 11 '11 at 17:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '11 at 22:10

i wrote a simple class wrapper to get a basic address as a php object, which might help you get the job done! i also added a google geocoding wrapper.

to answer your question, everything is ok with the url you posted, but yes as you mentioned on your reply you should urlencode the params

$query = $this->url."?appid=".$this->appid."&flags=".$this->format;
$query .= "&location=".urlencode($address);

here is a link to my wrapper class

https://github.com/mrpollo/Geocoding-API

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '11 at 21:43

OK as usual I had misidentified the problem. cURL was fine, but the q= variable was not being passed through any sort of urlencode function correctly.

Worked in my browser because Firefox kindly changed the to %20. With cURL you need to be more careful. . . .

yahoo maps api curl settings

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