PHP - 从浏览器到 file_get_contents 的结果不同

Question

I'm hitting Google Api's to get some geolocations.

The endpoint looks like this:

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=84100+ORANGE+FR&key=apikey

If I open this link on my chrome browser the API will return some data.

If i hit it with file_gets_content or simplexml_load_file il will return "zero results"

After some testing, I found out that I can see results on chrome because the browser itself is set in Italian language. If I set it in English it will return "Zero results" same as PHP.

How can I get in PHP the results I get on Chrome?

Answer 1

I actually found the issue here.

Basically when i set chrome in Italian, it probably rearranged the parameters order, returning me different results.

The actual issue here was the address parameter where City comes before zip.

Also adding the parameter &language=it worked for probably the same reason

So the correct URL would be

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=ORANGE+84100+FR&key=apikey

I spent way to much time debugging this one.