Using google places service with php curl - google-maps

Question

im trying to use the google places service with php curl
in my for loop (2 laps) , i send my url,
at the 1 lap, i can get json informations but the 2nd lap give me "REQUEST_DENIED" status. Here is my code :
<?php
//header("content-type: application/json");
//header("content-type: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");
//header("content-type: Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET");
set_time_limit(0);
ini_set("memory_limit","12000M");
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', True);
$cumulResults = array();
$pagenext="";
for($i=0;$i<2;$i++)
{
try{
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
CURLOPT_URL => 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=48.859294,2.347589&radius=50000&sensor=false&keyword=doctor&key=myapikeysecret'.$pagenext,
));
if(!curl_exec($curl)){
die('Error: "' . curl_error($curl) . '" - Code: ' . curl_errno($curl));
}
$resp = curl_exec($curl);
$result = json_decode($resp, true) ;
if(array_key_exists( 'status', $result ) )
{
switch ($result['status'])
{
case "OK":
break;
case "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT":
case "INVALID_REQUEST":
case "REQUEST_DENIED":
//echo $result['status'];
//exit;
break;
}
}
print_r($result );
if (array_key_exists('next_page_token', $result ) )
{
$pagenext = "&pagenex="+$result['next_page_token'];
}else{
$pagenext = "";
}
if($curl){curl_close($curl);}
sleep(5);
} catch (Exception $e) {
if($curl){curl_close($curl);}
}
}
?>
thanks

Answer 1

I would suggest using sleep to wait the thread between calls? Perhaps they are executing too quickly and hitting the request speed limit. Most Google maps services have them but they're not very well documented.
Hope this helps.