1 – Replace function _sendRequest :

/**
* Send Google geocoding request
*
* @param string $search
* @return object response (body only)
*/
private function _sendRequest($search)
{
$url = $this->url . $search . ‚&language=‘ . strtolower($this->language) . ‚&sensor=‘ . strtolower($this->sensor);

$resp_json = self::curl_file_get_contents($url);
$this->response = json_decode($resp_json);

if ($this->response->status == „OK“) {
// set some default values for reading
$defaults = $this->_setDefaults();
return $this->response;
} else {
echo „Geocoding failed, server responded: “ . $this->response->status;
return false;
}
} // end request

2 – Add curl function to make the request :

/**
* Use CURL to make request
*
* @param URL
* @return Contents
*/
private function curl_file_get_contents($URL){
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
$contents = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);

if ($contents) return $contents;
else return FALSE;
}

That’s all 😉