How to show Nearby Places with Laravel API - php

Question

I'm creating REST API with Laravel 5.6 (I have to say I'm new because I might have used the wrong terms. I'm sorry about that,I'm improving myself. I need to hear my faults :) )
I have one function for find nearby places in my controller
public function index(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request) {
if($request->has('party_category')){
$parties = Parties::where('party_category', $request->party_category)->get();//your new query here
}
else if($request->has('lat') && $request->has('long')){
$parties = Parties::whereRaw("ACOS(SIN(RADIANS('latitude'))*SIN(RADIANS($request->lat))+COS(RADIANS('latitude'))*COS(RADIANS($request->lat))*COS(RADIANS('longitude')-RADIANS($request->long)))*6380 < 10");
}else {
$parties = Parties::all();
}
return Fractal::includes('places')->collection($parties,new PartyTransformer);
}
and I'm using this url for send current location but when I giving them , laravel showing to me all parties not nearby.I want to show nearby places
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/parties?lat=37.043237&long=27.392445
but when I sending my parameter to url it showing
{"data":[]}
I can't show any nearby places
also in my database I'm keeping lat and long like this :
public function up()
{
Schema::create('parties', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('places_id')->unsigned();
$table->string('slug');
$table->string('party_title');
$table->string('party_category');
$table->string('rating')->nullable();
$table->date('party_date');
$table->string("latitude")->nullable();
$table->string("longitude")->nullable();
$table->integer('fav_count')->nullable();
$table->longText('image_path');
$table->longText('party_desp');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
How can I show the nearby ones ?

Answer 1

I fixed , I hope it will help somebody
class PartiesController extends Controller
{
public function index(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request) {
if($request->has('lat') && $request->has('long')){
$lat = $request->lat;
$long = $request->long;
$parties=DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT *,111.045*DEGREES(ACOS(COS(RADIANS(':lat'))*COS(RADIANS(`latitude`))*COS(RADIANS(`longitude`) - RADIANS(':long'))+SIN(RADIANS(':lat'))*SIN(RADIANS(`latitude`)))) AS distance_in_km FROM parties ORDER BY distance_in_km asc LIMIT 0,5"), array(
'lat' => $lat,
'long' => $long
));
$hidacik = Parties::hydrate($parties);
return Fractal::includes('places')->collection($hidacik,new PartyTransformer);
}
else {
$parties = Parties::all();
}
return Fractal::includes('places')->collection($parties,new PartyTransformer);
}
}

Answer 2

In $parties = Parties::whereRaw("ACOS(SIN(RADIANS('latitude'))*SIN(RADIANS($request->lat))+COS(RADIANS('latitude'))*COS(RADIANS($request->lat))*COS(RADIANS('longitude')-RADIANS($request->long)))*6380 < 10");
you are missing ->get(). you need to add get() in order to return a collection which you can then work with
//this returns a collection now since we added get()
$parties = Parties::whereRaw("ACOS(SIN(RADIANS('latitude'))*SIN(RADIANS($request->lat))+COS(RADIANS('latitude'))*COS(RADIANS($request->lat))*COS(RADIANS('longitude')-RADIANS($request->long)))*6380 < 10")->get();