How to get the exact match from the alogolia places response using PHP

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I am searching for New York, NY in Algoliya places, but not sure how to get the perfect match from the response, programmatically. Would you please tell me how I can get that?

I want to get the perfect match as I get while using the application

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Here is my search code,

$places = Algolia\AlgoliaSearch\PlacesClient::create($appId, $apiKey);

    $result = $places->search('New York, NY' ,[
            query=>'New York, NY',
            type=>'city',
            language=>'en'
    ]

    );
    var_dump($result);

Here is how the response looks like (sorry for clipping the text as it is a long text, )

array(6) {
[“hits”]=>
array(20) {
[0]=>
array(17) {
[“country”]=>
string(24) “United States of America”
[“is_country”]=>
bool(false)
[“is_highway”]=>
bool(false)
[“importance”]=>
int(16)
["_tags"]=>
array(4) {
[0]=>
string(4) “city”
[1]=>
string(10) “place/city”
[2]=>
string(10) “country/us”
[3]=>
string(15) “source/geonames”
}
[“postcode”]=>
array(145) {
[0]=>
string(5) “10001”
[1]=>
string(5) “10002”
[2]=>
string(5) “10003”
[3]=>
float(40.7127)
[“lng”]=>
float(-74.006)
}
[“objectID”]=>
string(7) “5128581”
["_highlightResult"]=>
array(4) {
[“country”]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(24) “United States of America”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[“postcode”]=>
array(145) {
[0]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(5) “10001”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[1]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(5) “10002”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[2]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(5) “10003”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[3]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(5) “10004”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[4]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(5) “10005”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[5]=>
array(3) {
[“value”]=>
string(5) “10006”
[“matchLevel”]=>
string(4) “none”
[“matchedWords”]=>
array(0) {
}
}
[6]=>

      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10044"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
        ["matchedWords"]=>
        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10045"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10055"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10060"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10065"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10069"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10080"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10081"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10087"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
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      array(3) {
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        string(5) "10090"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10102"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10103"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
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      array(3) {
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        string(5) "10104"
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        string(5) "10105"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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        array(0) {
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        string(4) "none"
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        string(4) "none"
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        string(5) "10113"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
        }
      }
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        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "10118"
        ["matchLevel"]=>
        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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    string(13) "place/village"
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    string(15) "source/geonames"
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  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(5) "13417"
  }
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  array(2) {
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    string(6) "Oneida"
  }
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  }
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  int(15)
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  bool(false)
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    string(14) "New York Mills"
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    float(-75.2914)
  }
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      array(0) {
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        string(4) "none"
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        bool(true)
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          string(2) "ny"
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        bool(false)
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        array(2) {
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}
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  bool(false)
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}
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    string(8) "New York"
  }
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  int(8)
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  bool(false)
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  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(7) "Potsdam"
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    float(44.6698)
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    float(-74.9813)
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  string(7) "5132103"
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      string(24) "United States of America"
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      string(4) "none"
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      array(0) {
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      [0]=>
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        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "13676"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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        ["value"]=>
        string(5) "13699"
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        string(4) "none"
        ["matchedWords"]=>
        array(0) {
        }
      }
    }
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    array(2) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["value"]=>
        string(21) "Saint Lawrence County"
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        string(4) "none"
        ["matchedWords"]=>
        array(0) {
        }
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        ["value"]=>
        string(12) "St. Lawrence"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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      [0]=>
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        ["value"]=>
        string(17) "<em>New York</em>"
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        string(7) "partial"
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        ["value"]=>
        string(7) "Potsdam"
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        string(4) "none"
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        array(0) {
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}
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  bool(false)
  ["importance"]=>
  int(30)
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    [0]=>
    string(4) "city"
    [1]=>
    string(10) "country/us"
    [2]=>
    string(15) "source/geonames"
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    string(15) "Richmond County"
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      string(24) "United States of America"
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#2

Hi @hriju.rahaman,

I am not entirely sure I have understood the problem. Let me recap to be sure we are on the same page: you are not able to get the same results with the API client compared to the Places demo on the website. Is that correct? If this is it could you please provide the URL of the demo? If I misunderstood the problem could you provide a bit more context about it?

Thank you!

#3

Hi,

Thank you for your response. I guess I am getting the same result, as I was able to see the suggested name(which I get using the demo) in the response. But I am fetching a problem to retrieve that information from the response array. For example, I sent a query for “New York, NY”. So there are suggested places including New York and others, I need to find a way to find out the match from the response array and match with the query text, lets say only “New York” and the response value.

Hope you understand, If not please let me know.

Thanks

#4

Hi,

Algolia Places (tries) to return the most relevant results for the search. The higher the result is the more relevant it is from the engine perspective. Unfortunately, the engine does not have the notion of whether a result is “correct” or not. This decision is deferred to the end-user.

Here the end-user is the program so it is your responsibility to write the logic that selects the most relevant results from the list. You can rely on the metadata returned to refine the search e.g. is_city, is_country, … You can find more information about the response in the documentation.

Hope that helps!

#5

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I was actually checking that way, I mean trying to find out the values from the response array, and got a way based on the response I have got, as I am doing it using PHP, so the response is not like other platforms.

$result = $places->search($querystring,[
                query=>$querystring,
                type=>'city',
                language=>'en'
            ]

        );
        $best_match=$result['hits'][0]['locale_names'][0];

Here the $best_match contains the suggested city name which stays on top in the suggestion.

Still, if you have any better suggestions or any opinion, please feel free to provide them.