Find the place name using latitude and longitude in PHP with google geocoder

We can find the place name using google geocoder by giving the Latitude and Longitude.

For example we want to get the place name of the latitude: '17.434545' and longitude: '82.124575' we need to pass this values to the google api to get the place details.

Following code explains how to work with that.

function getPlaceName($latitude, $longitude)
{
   //This below statement is used to send the data to google maps api and get the place
 name in different formats. we need to convert it as required. 
   $geocode=file_get_contents('http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng='
                                         .$latitude.','.$longitude.'&sensor=false');

   
   $output= json_decode($geocode);

   //Here "formatted_address" is used to display the address in a user friendly format.
   echo $output->results[0]->formatted_address;
}

We can use this function in PHP. when we execute the above method the following output will be displayed.

call the function as
<?php getPlaceName(17.434545, 82.124575); ?>

Output : Andhra Pradesh 533436, India

Thank you.