Re^3: Zip Code Module?

What do you mean, "download the postal code data"?

I tried this module, I installed it, using WHM (a cPanel Product) with the Install a Perl Module, it appeared to work ok, however, when I use the 'sample' code:

  use Geo::PostalCode;

  my $gp = Geo::PostalCode->new(db_dir => ".");

  my $record = $gp->lookup_postal_code(postal_code => '07302');
  my $lat   = $record->{lat};
  my $lon   = $record->{lon};
  my $city  = $record->{city};
  my $state = $record->{state};

  my $distance = $gp->calculate_distance(postal_codes => ['07302','100
+04']);

  $record = $gp->lookup_city_state(city => "Jersey City",state => "NJ"
+);
  $lat          = $record->{lat};
  $lon          = $record->{lon};
  my $postal_codes = $record->{postal_codes};

  $postal_codes = $gp->nearby_postal_codes(lat => $lat, lon => $lon,
                                                   distance => 50);
print qq~<br>
 City is ~ . $city . qq~<br>
 State is ~ . $state . qq~<br>
 Latitude is ~ . $lat . qq~<br>
 Longitude is ~ . $lon . qq~<br>
 <br>
 Nearby Zips are: $postal_codes~;
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(ran as a test) and I had this 'output':

City is
State is
Latitude is
Longitude is

Nearby Zips are: ARRAY(0x8674890)

So, could what you said, be the reason why it's not working?

I would appreciate your help.

thx,
Richard

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Re^4: Zip Code Module? by sgifford (Prior) on Dec 17, 2004 at 04:28 UTC
As sifen said, you need to download the postal code database, as explained in the INSTALL file. This is an unfortunate aspect of this module. The author said he'd accept a fix if I emailed him one; perhaps in the next few weeks I can find some time to do that. I think part of your problem, though, is that `$postal_codes` has an array reference, so you need to print it like this: `print "@$postal_codes";` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Zip Code Module? by powerhouse (Friar) on Dec 17, 2004 at 06:59 UTC
In the install file this is said: "Make sure to install the postalcode.db, city.db and latlon.db files in an approriate directory." I don't see where any of the .db files are. They are not in the .gz file that it shows. Where are those located? I went up one directory, and looked in all the files, they are not there, either. thx, Richard	[reply]
Re^6: Zip Code Module? by sgifford (Prior) on Dec 17, 2004 at 07:17 UTC
It also said: `To install, run lwp-download http://tjmather.com/Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz gunzip Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz ./load.pl # this will take a few seconds...` [download] After that you'll have those files.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Zip Code Module? by powerhouse (Friar) on Dec 17, 2004 at 09:13 UTC
Re^8: Zip Code Module? by simonm (Vicar) on Dec 17, 2004 at 17:06 UTC
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Re^4: Zip Code Module? by sifen (Beadle) on Dec 17, 2004 at 03:56 UTC
I'm really sorry about this. Unlike sgifford, I have actually never used this module. I guess I assumed that it would be straight forward to install. I figured out it's not actually. I would have attempted to recreate your exact environment so as to figure out what to do, but as I don't have access to cPanel, I used CPAN. It didn't install cleanly and failed most of it's make tests. My solution was to find the build directory made by CPAN, download said data, and run `make test` and `make install` by hand. That probably wasn't too helpful, so bellow is actually what I did: `sudo cpan install Geo::PostalCode lwp-download http://tjmather.com/Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz gunzip Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt.gz cd ~/.cpan/build/Geo-PostalCode-0.06/ sudo cp ~/Geo-PostalCode_19991101.txt ./ sudo ./load.pl sudo make test sudo make install perl -e 'use Geo::PostalCode'` [download] That got it to install and pass the two sets of test code included with the module. The load.pl script seems to take the downloaded textfile and separate it out into three db files. I also tried downloading the first source I gave you, and although it works, it gives you one DBase db, and I'm not really sure how you would use it ( thought you probably could ). Hopefully this time I've acutally been some help to you.	[reply] [d/l] [select]