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Interested in calculating the distance between latitude and longitude using PHP or MySQL? After doing a bit of research on the web, I was able to find the PHP solution that I was looking for. At first I was looking at how to calculate the distance for between a latitude and longitude point mathematically, but then tried to find out if anyone else had a solution that implemented PHP or MySQL that I could reuse.

Have a look at the solution below and let me know if you have any questions.

PHP:
function getDistanceBetweenPointsNew($latitude1, $longitude1, $latitude2, $longitude2, $unit = 'Mi') {
$theta = $longitude1 - $longitude2;
$distance = (sin(deg2rad($latitude1)) * sin(deg2rad($latitude2))) +
(cos(deg2rad($latitude1)) * cos(deg2rad($latitude2)) *
cos(deg2rad($theta)));
$distance = acos($distance);
$distance = rad2deg($distance);
$distance = $distance * 60 * 1.1515;
switch($unit) {
case ‘Mi’: break;
case ‘Km’ : $distance = $distance * 1.609344;
}return (round($distance,2));
}

MySQL:

$qry = "SELECT *,(((acos(sin((".$latitude."*pi()/180)) * sin((`Latitude`*pi()/180))+cos((".$latitude."*pi()/180)) * cos((`Latitude`*pi()/180)) * cos(((".$longitude."- `Longitude`)*pi()/180))))*180/pi())*60*1.1515) as distance FROM `MyTable` WHERE distance <= ".$distance."


I would like to contribute this solution to the author of The marketing technology blog thanks!

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1. 

   Douglas Karr

   May 28, 2008 at 12:20 am

   Thanks for the kind mention!

   Reply
2. 

   Harry Hobson

   June 3, 2008 at 1:01 am

   Thanks so much for this!

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   Horace Woods

   November 12, 2008 at 11:06 pm

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4. 

   cassandra

   December 14, 2009 at 11:58 am

   Great article thanks for sharing!

   Reply