This is quite a complicated one for me. I have a route that is a search - which works quite well, except I am unable to search by postcode to find the nearest to the lat and long of a given postcode. That is, I can work out the lat and long, but I am not sure how to integrate it to my existing query. This query is the search query without postcodes:
$query = DB::table('dogs');
$query->leftJoin('dog_addresses','dogs.id','=','dog_addresses.dog_id');
$query->leftJoin('dog_videos','dogs.id','=','dogs_videos.dog_id');
$query->leftJoin('dogs_breeds','dogs.breed_id','=','dogs_breeds.id');
if($request->input("breed") && $request->input("breed") != "" && $request->input("breed") != "any")
{
$breed = Dog_Breed::where("breed_name", $request->input("breed"))->first();
$query->where('dogs.breed_id', $breed->id);
}
$results = $query->get();
I have something to add to the query to get the latitude and longitude of the postcode:
if($request->input("postcode"))
{
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/" . $request->input('postcode'));
$result = json_decode(curl_exec($curl));
curl_close($curl);
$postcode_lat = $result->result->latitude;
$postcode_long = $result->result->longitude;
}
This lets me get my postcode latitute and longitude. But I don't then know how to get the dogs by location based on the lat and long columns present in the dog_addresses table, which is joined to the dogs table. How do I do this?
So if my dog_addresses table has the columns Lat and Long.
So dogs:
id | user_id | dog_name | age
dog_addresses:
id | dog_id | address_line_1 | town | postcode | lat | long
So for my query I need to get all dogs, where bred ID is 1, but I want to inner join videos so I can get all video information and addresses information, but I also want to sort the order of dogs returned by how close they are to my inputted postcode, based on lat and long.
I'm very confused. I found this:
( 3959 * acos( cos( radians(37) ) * cos( radians( lat ) ) * cos( radians( lng ) - radians(-122) ) + sin( radians(37) ) * sin( radians( lat ) ) ) ) AS distance
But I'm still not sure how to integrate it, or what use it is for me. Please help