HTTP Request Failed - Google Maps Geocoding/HostGator - php

Question

Help would be appreciated on this. I have a txt/xml list of physical addresses that I pass through a Google Maps geocoding script but have been running into a problem where the address spits out a null value on the coord_lat and my MySQL database rejects this. The error I receive is an HTTP request failed so I believe it is problem where the Google Maps is rejecting my connection and returning a null value which then breaks my script/database. Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this connection and/or add something to the script? I am currently using HostGator as my hosting service.
Warning: file_get_contents(http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?key=AIzaSyBmT9F_ixjLlW8oDiYVqgHqt1888&output=xml&q=xxx+here) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden in /includes/func.php on line 297
{"status":"Failed","data":"SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'coord_lat' cannot be null"}
ErrorSyntaxError: Unexpected token
function get_lat_long($address, $zipcode) {
if(strlen($zipcode) == 4){
$zipcode = '0' . $zipcode;
//echo $zipcode . "\n";
}
$apikey = "AIzaSyBmT9F_ixjLlW8oDiYVqgHqt1888";
$geourl = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?key=" . $apikey . "&output=xml&q=" . urlencode($address) . "+" . urlencode($zipcode);
//echo $geourl;
//echo "<br>";
// Grab XML content using $geourl
$context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('header' => 'Accept: application/xml')));
$xml = file_get_contents($geourl, false, $context);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
//Parse the lat and long from the XML
$Lat = $xml->results->result->locations->location->displayLatLng->latLng->lat;
//echo $Lat;
$Lng = $xml->results->result->locations->location->displayLatLng->latLng->lng;
//echo $Lng;
//Return
if($Lng && $Lat) {
return array('lat'=>$Lat,
'lng'=>$Lng
);
} else {
return false;
}
}

Answer 1

use google maps v3 what you are using is v2 i think and its not working anymore
$Address = urlencode($Address);
$url='http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=egypt&sensor=false';
$source = file_get_contents($url);
$obj = json_decode($source);
$lat = $obj->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
$lng = $obj->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;