function _location_convert_distance_to_meters in Location 5.3

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 5 location.inc \_location_convert_distance_to_meters()
2. 6.3 location.inc \_location_convert_distance_to_meters()
3. 7.5 location.inc \_location_convert_distance_to_meters()
4. 7.3 location.inc \_location_convert_distance_to_meters()
5. 7.4 location.inc \_location_convert_distance_to_meters()

Parameters

$distance: A number in either miles or km.

$distance_unit: String (optional). Either 'mile' or 'km' (default)

Return value

A floating point number where the number in meters after the initially passed scalar has been ceil()'d This is done after the $distance_unit parmeter is forced to be 'km' or 'mile'

1 call to _location_convert_distance_to_meters()

_location_search in contrib/location_search/location_search.module

Implementation of hook_search(). (forwarded from location.module)

File

./location.inc, line 222

Code

function _location_convert_distance_to_meters($distance, $distance_unit = 'km') {
  if (!is_numeric($distance)) {
    return NULL;
  }

  // Force an integer version of distance, just in case anyone wants to add a caching mechanism
  // for postal code proximity searches.
  if (is_float($distance)) {
    $distance = intval(ceil($distance));
  }
  if ($distance < 1) {
    return NULL;
  }
  if ($distance_unit != 'km' && $distance_unit != 'mile') {
    $distance_unit = 'km';
  }

  // Convert distance to meters

  //$distance_float = floatval($distance) * (($distance_unit == 'km') ? 1000.0 : 1609.347);

  //return round($distance_float, 2);
  $retval = round(floatval($distance) * ($distance_unit == 'km' ? 1000.0 : 1609.347), 2);
  return $retval;
}