Sailesh's Journal
PHP to Leadership: Since 2008

function getLatLong($address){     $prep_addr = str_replace(' ','+',$address);     $geocode = file_get_contents('http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='.$prep_addr.'&sensor=false');     $output= json_decode($geocode);     $lat = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;     $long = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;     return array("latitude" => $lat, "longitude" => $long); }

I found it after googling for a day, finally a function that reads the .docx file and return you a string. Hats off to the original author of this function. function readDocx($file_name){     $striped_content = '';     $content = '';     if(!$file_name || !file_exists($file_name))         return false;     $zip = zip_open($file_name);     if (!$zip || is_numeric($zip))         return false;     while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {         if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry) == FALSE)             continue;         if (zip_entry_name($zip_entry) != "word/document.xml")             continue;         $content .= zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));         zip_entry_close($zip_entry);     }// end while     zip_close($zip);     $content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p></w:tc><w:tc>', " ", $content);     $content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p>', "\r\n", $content);     $stripe

   /**     *     * Convert an object to an array     *     * @param    object  $object The object to convert     * @reeturn      array     *     */      function  objectToArray (  $object  )     {         if( ! is_object (  $object  ) && ! is_array (  $object  ) )         {             return  $object ;         }         if(  is_object (  $object  ) )         {              $object  =  get_object_vars (  $object  );         }         return  array_map (  'objectToArray' ,  $object  );     }      /*** convert the array to object ***/      $array  =  objectToArray (  $obj  );      /*** show the array ***/      print_r (  $array  );   Taken from phpro.org