http://snipplr.com/language/php/tags/distance Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:26:27 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/67019/miles-to-latitude-and-miles-to-longitude-converter/ There are tons of functions out there to calculate the distance between two points, but what if you know one point and want to calculate the latitude ("vertical") or longitude ("horizontal") equivalent of a fixed distance, in miles? An example application would be in generating a minimum & maximum latitude and longitude bounding box around an area to limit the results of a database query that uses distance from a fixed point.

]]> Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:08:26 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/67019/miles-to-latitude-and-miles-to-longitude-converter/ http://snipplr.com/view/51629/calculate-distances/ "Here is a very handy function, which calculate the distance from a point A to a point B, using latitudes and longitudes. The function can return the distance in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles."

]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:11:51 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/51629/calculate-distances/ http://snipplr.com/view/51533/get-distance-between-2-points/ Get the distance between 2 points on a map

]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:23:26 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/51533/get-distance-between-2-points/ http://snipplr.com/view/18389/coordinate--distance-lookup/

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:10:57 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/18389/coordinate--distance-lookup/ http://snipplr.com/view/9566/distance-between-two-points/

]]> Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:05:12 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/9566/distance-between-two-points/ http://snipplr.com/view/2531/calculate-the-distance-between-two-coordinates-latitude-longitude/ This PHP function calculates the distance between to pairs of latitude longitude coordinates. Returns the distance in miles or kilometers.

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