Google API to Calculate a Distance in PHP / Mysql

I actually had a hard time finding some of the Geographic calculations to find the distance between two locations so I wanted to share them here. If you remember ‘the old days’ of calculating a distance between two points, it was simply the hypotenuse of a triangle (A² + B² = C²). That’s an interesting start but it doesn’t apply with Geography since the distance between lines of latitude and longitude are not an equal distance apart. As you get closer to the equator, lines of latitude get further apart.…

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