GeoPHP is a open-source native PHP library for doing geometry operations. It is written entirely in PHP and can therefore run on shared hosts. It can read and write a wide variety of formats: WKT (including EWKT), WKB (including EWKB), GeoJSON, KML, GPX, and GeoRSS. It works with all Simple-Feature geometries (Point, LineString, Polygon, GeometryCollection etc.) and can be used to get centroids, bounding-boxes, area, and a wide variety of other useful information.
geoPHP also helpfully wraps the GEOS php extension so that applications can get a transparent performance increase when GEOS is installed on the server. When GEOS is installed, geoPHP also becomes fully compliant with the OpenGIS® Implementation Standard for Geographic information. With GEOS you get the full-set of openGIS functions in PHP like Union, IsWithin, Touches etc. This means that applications get a useful "core-set" of geometry operations that work in all environments, and an "extended-set"of operations for environments that have GEOS installed.
See the 'getting started' section below for references and examples of everything that geoPHP can do.
This project is currently looking for co-maintainers. If you think you can help out, please send me a message. Forks are also welcome, please issue pull requests and I will merge them into the main branch.
- The latest stable version can always be downloaded at: https://phayes.github.io/bin/current/geoPHP/geoPHP.tar.gz
- Read the API Reference at: https://geophp.net/api.html
- Examples
- Using geoPHP as a GIS format converter: http://github.com/phayes/geoPHP/wiki/Example-format-converter
- Other Interesting Links:
- Learn about GEOS integration at: https://geophp.net/geos.html
<?php
include_once('geoPHP.inc');
// Polygon WKT example
$polygon = geoPHP::load('POLYGON((1 1,5 1,5 5,1 5,1 1),(2 2,2 3,3 3,3 2,2 2))','wkt');
$area = $polygon->getArea();
$centroid = $polygon->getCentroid();
$centX = $centroid->getX();
$centY = $centroid->getY();
print "This polygon has an area of ".$area." and a centroid with X=".$centX." and Y=".$centY;
// MultiPoint json example
print "<br/>";
$json =
'{
"type": "MultiPoint",
"coordinates": [
[100.0, 0.0], [101.0, 1.0]
]
}';
$multipoint = geoPHP::load($json, 'json');
$multipoint_points = $multipoint->getComponents();
$first_wkt = $multipoint_points[0]->out('wkt');
print "This multipoint has ".$multipoint->numGeometries()." points. The first point has a wkt representation of ".$first_wkt;
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The Well Known Text (WKT) and Well Known Binary (WKB) support is ideal for integrating with MySQL's or PostGIS's spatial capability.
Once you have SELECTed your data with 'AsText('geo_field')'
or 'AsBinary('geo_field')'
, you can put it straight into
geoPHP (can be wkt or wkb, but must be the same as how you extracted it from your database):
$geom = geoPHP::load($dbRow,'wkt');
You can collect multiple geometries into one (note that you must use wkt for this):
$geom = geoPHP::load("GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(".$dbString1.",".$dbString2.")",'wkt');
Calling get components returns the sub-geometries within a geometry as an array.
$geom2 = geoPHP::load("GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(LINESTRING(1 1,5 1,5 5,1 5,1 1),LINESTRING(2 2,2 3,3 3,3 2,2 2))");
$geomComponents = $geom2->getComponents(); //an array of the two linestring geometries
$linestring1 = $geomComponents[0]->getComponents(); //an array of the first linestring's point geometries
$linestring2 = $geomComponents[1]->getComponents();
echo $linestring1[0]->x() . ", " . $linestring1[0]->y(); //outputs '1, 1'
An alternative is to use the asArray()
method. Using the above geometry collection of two linestrings,
$geometryArray = $geom2->asArray();
echo $geometryArray[0][0][0] . ", " . $geometryArray[0][0][1]; //outputs '1, 1'
Clearly, more complex analysis is possible.
echo $geom2->envelope()->area();
geoPHP, through it's EWKB adapter, has good integration with postGIS. Here's an example of reading and writing postGIS geometries
<?php
include_once('geoPHP.inc');
$host = 'localhost';
$database = 'phayes';
$table = 'test';
$column = 'geom';
$user = 'phayes';
$pass = 'supersecret';
$connection = pg_connect("host=$host dbname=$database user=$user password=$pass");
// Working with PostGIS and Extended-WKB
// ----------------------------
// Using asBinary and GeomFromWKB in PostGIS
$result = pg_fetch_all(pg_query($connection, "SELECT asBinary($column) as geom FROM $table"));
foreach ($result as $item) {
$wkb = pg_unescape_bytea($item['geom']); // Make sure to unescape the hex blob
$geom = geoPHP::load($wkb, 'ewkb'); // We now a full geoPHP Geometry object
// Let's insert it back into the database
$insert_string = pg_escape_bytea($geom->out('ewkb'));
pg_query($connection, "INSERT INTO $table ($column) values (GeomFromWKB('$insert_string'))");
}
// Using a direct SELECT and INSERTs in PostGIS without using wrapping functions
$result = pg_fetch_all(pg_query($connection, "SELECT $column as geom FROM $table"));
foreach ($result as $item) {
$wkb = pack('H*',$item['geom']); // Unpacking the hex blob
$geom = geoPHP::load($wkb, 'ewkb'); // We now have a geoPHP Geometry
// To insert directly into postGIS we need to unpack the WKB
$unpacked = unpack('H*', $geom->out('ewkb'));
$insert_string = $unpacked[1];
pg_query($connection, "INSERT INTO $table ($column) values ('$insert_string')");
}
Maintainer: Patrick Hayes
Additional Contributors:
- GeoMemes Research (http://www.geomemes.com)
- HighWire Press (http://www.highwire.org) and GeoScienceWorld (http://www.geoscienceworld.org)
- Arnaud Renevier (gisconverter.php) https://github.com/arenevier/gisconverter.php
- Dave Tarc https://github.com/dtarc
- Elliott Hunston (documentation) https://github.com/ejh
This library is open-source and dual-licensed under both the Modified BSD License and GPLv2. Either license may be used at your option.