Comments on: SOAP Zip Code Web Service!

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:20:14 +0000

As of now, it does not. I am working on the REST version of this and also updating the database with additional API options.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:55:10 +0000

Does your service support REST requests? If so, what is the format for making such requests?

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:36:25 +0000

Hi Will,

Is this service limited to United States or it serves for other countries too ? I am looking for something which help for maximum country of out planet. Will it able to fulfill my requirement ?

By: Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:00:40 +0000

hello. Thanks for providing this great service. I’ve been testing it and would like to use it for a site I’m developing. I do have one question, though — how often is the zip code data updated?

thanks again

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:32:16 +0000

Great article…but…..any ideas on this error:

SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string ‘\x91…’ is not a valid utf-8 string [faultcode] => Client [faultcodens] => http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ )

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:37:35 +0000

Getting Distances Between Zip Codes – getDistanceByZip(int zipcode1, int zipcode2)

The arguments should have been ‘String’ and not ‘int’. What if someone wants to calculate distance between ‘07044′ and ‘07928′? Both are valid NJ zip codes.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:28:26 +0000

Great article, very extensive. The best one I found on the first page of Google. Looking forward to Part 2. Thanks!

By: Weast

Weast — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:41:04 +0000

Hi Will,
This is a great service, thanks for all your hard work! I’ve noticed that some zip codes return no results on the radius search (i.e. 60586, 60491). My requests to other zip codes work beautifully, but occasionally I see these rogues. Could this be due to outdated data?

Thanks!

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:54:37 +0000

Hi Diego,

This service isn’t going anywhere. I will be releasing a new version of it very soon, but this version will be available for 6 months or so after that release.

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:05:06 +0000

Hi Will,
I’m planning to use this web service in a project I’m about to start. Is it still online? For how long do you think it’s going to be available? I mean… if there’s the possibility that it is put out of service.

Thanks!

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:31:01 +0000

Hi Jay,

This service has been around for more than two years, and it has always been free. The code behind it is PHP and the service is RPC. I am working on, in as much time as I can spare, a document-literal version which will provide more than just “data”. It will provide business functions as web services were intended to do.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:33:58 +0000

Awesome, I can’t wait to use this. Is this free? What ab the code that powers the web service? My only concern is that eventually you will stop offering this and it will go away (as many others I’ve seen has)

By: cloud9ine

cloud9ine — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:38:39 +0000

Thanks, Will

On second looks, it is an hour off, not 11 hours.

In your example, you have only one parameter passed, the zip code. What is the second parameter (string) in the WSDL? Is it a selection of 12 or 24 hourly? Could you help us with the explanation of this parameter?

I end up having an AM / PM problem as well. I am trying the zip code 63031. Also, I might be hitting your server a little hard around now since I am developing. Sorry for the trouble.

Thanks again for a very useful service.

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:07:43 +0000

Hello cloud9ine,

I will check this when I get home this evening. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

By: cloud9ine

cloud9ine — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:36:09 +0000

Actually, it looks like it is a whole 11 hours off since the result is an hour ahead but AM instead of PM

By: cloud9ine

cloud9ine — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:18:16 +0000

Will,

Thanks a ton for this awesome service. One question though. I am catching time off by an hour. Is there possibly a DST error? Or should I adjust for DST? Is this service still being maintained?

Thanks

Cloud9ine

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:37:57 +0000

Hi Jose,

Please use the latest version of the web service here http://www.phpfever.com/soap-zip-code-web-service.html. The service you are referencing is outdated.

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:11:13 +0000

Hi ! your service is what i’m looking for but i find some troubles when trying to make it working:

try
http://www.phpfever.com/web-services/zip_radius.php?zip_code=33033&radius=10

it fails with some php warnings and fatal errors.
Are you going to fix that sooner ?

Regards

Jose

By: Chad Crowell

Chad Crowell — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:05:58 +0000

I’m new to SOAP and the radius lookup is exactly what I need. Can you give me a few pointers? So, I know that calling this function with a provided zip code and radius value will give me an XML array of zip codes within that radius of he original zip code. Secondarily, I would need to use that array to run against my records to provide the results to my users. Fine.

I’m just having trouble getting the calls to your API right. If you could email me please, just a blank message, I’d be grateful if we could have a conversation about how to get this call right in PHP.

Thanks Will.

By: Will Fitch

Will Fitch — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:58:41 +0000

The zip code search has been increased to 300 elements out.