$url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=".urlencode($q)."&key=$apikey";
 
 
 
// sendRequest
 
// note how referer is set manually
 
 
 
$ch = curl_init();
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 
$body = curl_exec($ch);
 
curl_close($ch);
 
$this->json = json_decode ( $body );
 
 
 
list ( $zipcode, $localityName ) = array ( "test", "test" );
 
$i=0;
 
 
 
 // Loop through Google-Maps Placemarks ( request from user input ) and compare with needle
 
foreach ($this->json->Placemark as $k) {
 
	if ( $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL ) {
 
	    $place [ "zipcode" ] = $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	} elseif ( $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL ) {
 
	    $place [ "zipcode" ] = $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	} elseif ( $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL ) {
 
	    $place [ "zipcode" ] = $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	} elseif ( $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL ) {
 
	    $place [ "zipcode" ] = $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	} elseif ( $k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->AdministrativeAreaName != NULL ) {
 
 
 
	// If not found repeat the query but this time with the Zipcode and the AdministrativeAreaName ( if found )
 
	$plz->query = $zipcode." ".$k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->AdministrativeAreaName;
 
	$google = $this->geocode($plz->query, $plz->apikey);
 
 
 
	foreach ($google->Placemark as $i) {
 
	    if ($i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL) {
 
		$place [ "zipcode" ] = $i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	    } elseif ($i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL) {
 
		$place [ "zipcode" ] = $i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	    } elseif ($i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL) {
 
		$place [ "zipcode" ] = $i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	    } elseif ($i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber != NULL) {
 
		$place [ "zipcode" ] = $i->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->PostalCode->PostalCodeNumber;
 
	    }
 
	}
 
}
 
 
 
    // Just in case that the user has typos, get the locality name of a random placemark
 
if ($k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->Locality->LocalityName != NULL) {
 
    $place [ "name" ] = $code['ortsname'] = utf8_encode($k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->Locality->LocalityName);
 
} elseif ($k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->LocalityName != NULL) {
 
    $place [ "name" ] = $code['ortsname'] = utf8_encode($k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->SubAdministrativeArea->Locality->LocalityName);
 
} elseif ($k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->AdministrativeAreaName != NULL) {
 
    $place [ "name" ] = $code['ortsname'] = utf8_encode($k->AddressDetails->Country->AdministrativeArea->AdministrativeAreaName);
 
}
 
 
 
    // If zipcode or city is true 
 
if ( $place [ "zipcode" ] == $zipcode || $place [ "name" ] == $localityName ) {
 
	... do stuff ...
 
}