Comments on: MySql City, State, Zip, Latitude, Longitude Database

By: Ron Jones

Ron Jones — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:33:13 +0000

Have a look at http://worldcitiesdatabase.info They offer a great database of world cities for less than five bucks. Unlike the free databases containing millions of entries, this one only has about 70 thousand entries, which makes it ideal for city selector scripts. Otherwise, it takes forever to populate the selectors.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:15:20 +0000

Thanks man really just need this for the database very helpful mate

Cheers

By: Sanket Patel

Sanket Patel — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:53:29 +0000

Hi Jesse,

Nice work. Keep it up.
If you are not addicted to PHP (Joking) then you can use this MySQL solution given below (Not joking) to upload data given in zipcode database.
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CREATE TABLE geoInfo(zipcode INT PRIMARY KEY,latitude VARCHAR(15),longitude VARCHAR(15),stateCode VARCHAR(10),city VARCHAR(20),county VARCHAR(20));

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ‘/home/sanket/Desktop/zipcodes.txt’ INTO TABLE geoInfo FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘||’ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’;

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By: Jesse Price

Jesse Price — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:37:10 +0000

Sorry for not using explode and using split… Also file vs file_get_contents. I wrote this in my early days of php3 programming where the explode function did not exist. Also file returns an array and file_get_contents returns string so I figured that using file_get_contents then using a string manipulating function would suffice… I should update the code since split is now deprecated as of php 5.3…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:47:22 +0000

Thanks great job! I’m currently working on Flex application and I needed this..

By: Xeoncross

Xeoncross — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:09:59 +0000

Please use explode() and file() instead of split() and file_get_contents().

By: dalitec

dalitec — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:32:31 +0000

Jesse

Thank you so much for sharing this. I tested it on a web server and it worked like a charm. Just a note. Becuase the zip code is set up as an integer it deletes all the prefix zeros of the zip code. So zipcode 00871 will only show up as 871 in the zipcode column. I am thinking about setting the zipcode field as char or varchar and change the table creation as needed, modify the primary key and load the data. I have not done that yet. If I get that working, I will share my change here.

Dal

By: Desire

Desire — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:58:38 +0000

Thx Jesse, ok script.. but mysql add , update, delete how, pls help new script.
Thx.