photo.md

Place Photo API

The Place Photo service, part of the Google Places API Web Service, is a read-only API that allows you to add high quality photographic content to your application. The Place Photo service gives you access to the millions of photos stored in the Places and Google+ Local database. When you get place information using a Place Details request, photo references will be returned for relevant photographic content. The Nearby Search and Text Search requests also return a single photo reference per place, when relevant. Using the Photo service you can then access the referenced photos and resize the image to the optimal size for your application.

To install them, read this documentation.

Configuration

By default, the place photo service is disabled. In order to enable the service, you need to configure it.

Enable

If you want to enable the place photo service, you can use the following:

ivory_google_map:
    place_photo: ~

Format

The format allows you to use json/xml format for your http request:

ivory_google_map:
    place_photo:
        format: json

Api key

The API key allows you to bypass Google limitation according to your account plan:

ivory_google_map:
    place_photo:
        api_key: ~

Business account

The business account allows you to use Google Premium account:

ivory_google_map:
    place_photo:
        business_account:
            client_id: ~
            secret: ~
            channel: ~

Usage

Once you have configured your place photo service, you can fetch it from the container and use it as explained in the documentation.

use Ivory\GoogleMap\Service\Place\Photo\Request\PlacePhotoRequest;

$request = new PlacePhotoRequest('CnRtAAAATLZNl354RwP_9UKbQ_5P');
$url = $this->container->get('ivory.google_map.place_photo')->process($request);