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Calculate the Distance Between Two Coordinates (latitude, longitude)

Published in: PHP 

This PHP function calculates the distance between to pairs of latitude longitude coordinates. Returns the distance in miles or kilometers.

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  1. function distance($lat1, $lng1, $lat2, $lng2, $miles = true)
  2. {
  3. 	$pi80 = M_PI / 180;
  4. 	$lat1 *= $pi80;
  5. 	$lng1 *= $pi80;
  6. 	$lat2 *= $pi80;
  7. 	$lng2 *= $pi80;
  8.  
  9. 	$r = 6372.797; // mean radius of Earth in km
  10. 	$dlat = $lat2 - $lat1;
  11. 	$dlng = $lng2 - $lng1;
  12. 	$a = sin($dlat / 2) * sin($dlat / 2) + cos($lat1) * cos($lat2) * sin($dlng / 2) * sin($dlng / 2);
  13. 	$c = 2 * atan2(sqrt($a), sqrt(1 - $a));
  14. 	$km = $r * $c;
  15.  
  16. 	return ($miles ? ($km * 0.621371192) : $km);
  17. }

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