Hi Everyone,
I'm building out a loop that I want to be able to display the distance in miles for each post based on variables containing the coordinates of one point and the coordinates of another. I have point A and B's individual latitude and longitude values inside of custom fields.
I found a script that is a good starting point, but no matter how I try to place Point A and B's values, it crashes and the page either quits loading at that point, or I get the PHP white screen of death.
Here's the script I'm starting from:
<?php
function distance($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2, $unit) {
$theta = $lon1 - $lon2;
$dist = sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) + cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) * cos(deg2rad($theta));
$dist = acos($dist);
$dist = rad2deg($dist);
$miles = $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
$unit = strtoupper($unit);
if ($unit == "K") {
return ($miles * 1.609344);
} else if ($unit == "N") {
return ($miles * 0.8684);
} else {
return $miles;
}
}
echo distance(32.9697, -96.80322, 29.46786, -98.53506, "M") . " Miles<br>";
?>And here's an example of how I've tried getting the variables into the script:
<?php
function distance($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2, $unit) {
$theta = $lon1 - $lon2;
$dist = sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2)) + cos(deg2rad($lat1)) * cos(deg2rad($lat2)) * cos(deg2rad($theta));
$dist = acos($dist);
$dist = rad2deg($dist);
$miles = $dist * 60 * 1.1515;
$unit = strtoupper($unit);
if ($unit == "K") {
return ($miles * 1.609344);
} else if ($unit == "N") {
return ($miles * 0.8684);
} else {
return $miles;
}
}
echo distance('.$a_lat.', '.$a_long.', '.$b_lat.', '.$b_long.', "M") . " Miles<br>";
?>My question is: How can I properly echo out the variables into this script so that it shows up with each post in the loop?
Thanks!
