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    August 13, 2013

    The function below use the latitude and longitude of two locations, and calculate the distance between them in both miles and metric units.

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    <!--?php 
function getDistanceBetweenPointsNew($latitude1, $longitude1, $latitude2, $longitude2) {
    $theta = $longitude1 - $longitude2;
    $miles = (sin(deg2rad($latitude1)) * sin(deg2rad($latitude2))) + (cos(deg2rad($latitude1)) * cos(deg2rad($latitude2)) * cos(deg2rad($theta)));
    $miles = acos($miles);
    $miles = rad2deg($miles);
    $miles = $miles * 60 * 1.1515;
    $feet = $miles * 5280;
    $yards = $feet / 3;
    $kilometers = $miles * 1.609344;
    $meters = $kilometers * 1000;
    return compact('miles','feet','yards','kilometers','meters'); 
}
 
$point1 = array('lat' =--> 18.933333, 'long' =&gt; 74.583333); // Mumbai
$point2 = array('lat' =&gt; 28.666667, 'long' =&gt; 77.233333); // Delhi
 
$distance = getDistanceBetweenPointsNew($point1['lat'], $point1['long'], $point2['lat'], $point2['long']);
foreach ($distance as $unit =&gt; $value) {
    echo $unit.': '.number_format($value,4).'
';
}
 
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