A simple configuration script to pull city, state, and country from a given zipcode. This is more of a proof of concept that even though this is now 2014 we're still requiring people to put in their full addresses when its totally unnecessary. The included class and concept can be used with webstores and the like to ensure that checking out for your customers is as simple as possible. The only requirements would be a PO BOX or street address and zipcode.
Ensure you have at least PHP version 5.3.0 to be able to work with namespaces. The two that are used in this project are Phalcon and Curl.
include 'Network/Curl/Curl.php';
use Phalcon\Mvc\Micro as Micro;
use Network\Curl\Curl as Curl;Phalcon is a super fast C extension for PHP and is very easy to install and use. This example uses the Micro application class. Network\Curl\Curl is a very simplistic cURL library for creating simple cURL calls.
To be able to use phalcon it must be installed as a PHP extension and you must use the correct routing method for your preferred setup.
The built in webserver that we all have access to with the newer versions of PHP works just fine with the micro application functions included with Phalcon. However, to access them you must create another PHP file .htrouter.php and include it with your index.php.
<?php
if(!file_exists(__DIR__ . '/' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){
$_GET['_url'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
return false;Once you've done that, it will route just fine.
An example nginx server{ } function would look something like this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost.dev;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
set $root_path '/var/www/phalcon/public';
root $root_path;
try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
location @rewrite {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?_url=/$1;
}
location ~ \.php {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index /index.php;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~* ^/(css|img|js|flv|swf|download)/(.+)$ {
root $root_path;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}Apache must simply have AllowOverride All enabled for your project directory, and include a .htaccess file with the following contents:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?_url=/$1 [QSA,L]There is only a single class in this example: ZipCode. It's a static method which is used to execute the cURL request and dump the results into an object ($d) and retuns the value.
This static method class is used to facilitate the return of the different types of data that we can access, including city, state, and country. Each return has their own static function along with a static function for all which will return all three data values.
I do not actively maintain this repository. If you have an improvement I'm open to pull requests, but I do not offer support.