Class: Services_GeoNames

Source Location: /Services_GeoNames-1.0.1/Services/GeoNames.php

Class Overview

Main interface to the GeoNames API: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html

Author(s):

David Jean Louis <izi at php.net>

Version:

Release: 1.0.1

Copyright:

2008-2009 David Jean Louis

Inherited Variables

Inherited Methods

Class Details

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Main interface to the GeoNames API: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html

Method: array children(): children(array $params)
Method: array cities(): cities(array $params)
Method: stdclass countryCode(): countryCode(array $params)
Method: array countryInfo(): countryInfo(array $params)
Method: stdclass countrySubdivision(): countrySubdivision(array $params)
Method: array earthquakes(): earthquakes(array $params)
Method: array findNearby(): findNearby(array $params)
Method: array findNearbyPlaceName(): findNearbyPlaceName(array $params)
Method: array findNearbyPostalCodes(): findNearbyPostalCodes(array $params)
Method: array findNearbyStreets(): findNearbyStreets(array $params)
Method: stdclass findNearByWeather(): findNearByWeather(array $params)
Method: array findNearbyWikipedia(): findNearbyWikipedia(array $params)
Method: stdclass findNearestAddress(): findNearestAddress(array $params)
Method: stdclass findNearestIntersection(): findNearestIntersection(array $params)
Method: stdclass get(): get(array $params)
Method: stdclass gtopo30(): gtopo30(array $params)
Method: array hierarchy(): hierarchy(array $params)
Method: stdclass neighbourhood(): neighbourhood(array $params)
Method: array neighbours(): neighbours(array $params)
Method: array postalCodeCountryInfo(): postalCodeCountryInfo(array $params)
Method: array postalCodeLookup(): postalCodeLookup(array $params)
Method: array postalCodeSearch(): postalCodeSearch(array $params)
Method: array search(): search(array $params)
Method: array siblings(): siblings(array $params)
Method: array weather(): weather(array $params)
Method: stdclass weatherIcao(): weatherIcao(array $params)
Method: stdclass srtm3(): srtm3(array $params)
Method: stdclass timezone(): timezone(array $params)
Method: array wikipediaBoundingBox(): wikipediaBoundingBox(array $params)
Method: array wikipediaSearch(): wikipediaSearch(array $params)
Author: David Jean Louis <izi@php.net>
Version: Release: 1.0.1
Copyright: 2008-2009 David Jean Louis
Link: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html
Link: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html
Link: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_GeoNames
Since: Class available since release 0.1.0
License: MIT License

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Class Variables

$endpoints = array(
        'children'                => 'geonames',
        'cities'                  => 'geonames',
        'countryCode'             => false,
        'countryInfo'             => 'geonames',
        'countrySubdivision'      => false,
        'earthquakes'             => 'earthquakes',
        'findNearby'              => 'geonames',
        'findNearbyPlaceName'     => 'geonames',
        'findNearbyPostalCodes'   => 'postalCodes',
        'findNearbyStreets'       => 'streetSegment',
        'findNearByWeather'       => 'weatherObservation',
        'findNearbyWikipedia'     => 'geonames',
        'findNearestAddress'      => 'address',
        'findNearestIntersection' => 'intersection',
        'get'                     => false,
        'gtopo30'                 => false,
        'hierarchy'               => 'geonames',
        'neighbourhood'           => 'neighbourhood',
        'neighbours'              => 'geonames',
        'postalCodeCountryInfo'   => 'geonames',
        'postalCodeLookup'        => 'postalcodes', // not a typo
        'postalCodeSearch'        => 'postalCodes',
        'search'                  => 'geonames',
        'siblings'                => 'geonames',
        'weather'                 => 'weatherObservations',
        'weatherIcao'             => 'weatherObservation',
        'srtm3'                   => false,
        'timezone'                => false,
        'wikipediaBoundingBox'    => 'geonames',
        'wikipediaSearch'         => 'geonames',
    )

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Array of supported endpoints (listed alphabetically) and their corresponding root property (if any). You can retrieve the list of endpoints (only the keys of this array) with the Services_GeoNames::getSupportedEndpoints() method.

Note that we only support json endpoints, so the following endpoints are not supported:

extendedFindNearby (JSON not available for now)
rssToGeo (RSS/KML only)

For a full documentation of the available endpoints services, please see: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html.

See: Services_GeoNames::getSupportedEndpoints()
Access: protected

Type:

array

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$failoverServers = array()

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Array of failover servers.

See: Services_GeoNames::sendRequest()
Access: public

Type:

array

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$request =

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The HTTP_Request2 instance, you can customize the request if you want to (proxy, auth etc...) with the get/setRequest() methods.

See: Services_GeoNames::getRequest()
See: Services_GeoNames::setRequest()
Access: protected

Type:

HTTP_Request2

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$token =

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Auth token, only relevant for the geonames commercial web services: http://www.geonames.org/commercial-webservices.html

See: Services_GeoNames::__construct()
Access: protected

Type:

string

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$url = 'http://ws.geonames.org'

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Url of the GeoNames web service.

Access: public

Type:

string

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$username =

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Auth username, only relevant for the geonames commercial web services: http://www.geonames.org/commercial-webservices.html

See: Services_GeoNames::__construct()
Access: protected

Type:

string

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Method Detail

__construct (Constructor) [line 213]

void __construct(
[string
$username = null], [string
$token = null])

Constructor, if you're using a commercial account (optional), you must pass your "username" and "token".

Access: public

Parameters:

string	`$username`	—	Username for commercial webservice (optional)
string	`$token`	—	Token for commercial webservice (optional)

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formatQueryString [line 360]

string formatQueryString(
[array
$params = array()])

Builds a valid query string (url and utf8 encoded) to pass to the endpoint and returns it.

Return: The formatted query string
Access: protected

Parameters:

array $params — Associative array of query parameters (name=>val)

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getRequest [line 387]

HTTP_Request2 getRequest(
)

Returns the HTTP_Request2 instance, if it's not yet set it is instanciated on the fly.

Return: The request
See: Services_GeoNames::$request
Access: public

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getSupportedEndpoints [line 420]

array getSupportedEndpoints(
)

Returns an array of supported services endpoints.

Return: The endpoints array
See: Services_GeoNames::$endpoints
Access: public

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isUtf8 [line 435]

boolean isUtf8(
string
$str)

Check if the given string is a UTF-8 string or an iso-8859-1 one.

Return: Wether the string is unicode or not
Access: protected

Parameters:

string $str — The string to check

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sendRequest [line 303]

string sendRequest(
string
$urlPath)

Sends the request to the server using HTTP_Request2.

Return: The response body
Throws: Services_GeoNames_HTTPException When something goes wrong when building the request or requesting the server.
Throws: HTTP_Request2_Exception
Access: protected

Parameters:

string $urlPath — The url path *without* the scheme://host

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setRequest [line 406]

void setRequest(

$request)

Sets the HTTP_Request2 instance.

See: Services_GeoNames::$request
Access: public

Parameters:

HTTP_Request2 $request — The request to set

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__call [line 237]

mixed __call(
string
$endpoint, [array
$params = array()])

Method interceptor that retrieves the corresponding endpoint and return a json decoded object or throw a Services_GeoNames_Exception.

Return: stdclass|array The JSON decoded response or an array
Throws: Services_GeoNames_Exception When an invalid method is called or when the websercices returns an error
Access: public

Parameters:

string	`$endpoint`	—	The endpoint to call
array	`$params`	—	Array of parameters to pass to the endpoint

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