PHP Data Type For MySQL POINT Field

Question

I created a MySQL table where a field is of type POINT and is used to store lat, lon coordinates (ex: 36.6294654 -93.1725982).

I got an error, with a form submission, and I'm assuming it is due to a mismatched data type.

SQLSTATE[22003]: Numeric value out of range: 1416 Cannot get geometry object from data you send to the GEOMETRY field

My understanding is that POINT should have the example's format (I also tried lat, lon). The problem, I think, is that the space converts the variable into STRING.

Am I missing something, here?

Here is my PHP code to connect to the database and insert the record.

// use google's geocoding service to transform an address into lat/lon coordinates (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/)
$json = file_get_contents('https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=' . urlencode($street) . ',+' . urlencode($city) . ',+' . urlencode($state) . ',+' . urlencode($zip) . '&key=YOUR_API_KEY');
$json = json_decode($json, true);
$latlon = $json['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat'] . ' ' . $json['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng'];
try {
    $dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=someserver;port=someport;dbname=somedatabase', 'someusername', 'somepassword', array(PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true));
    $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    $sql = 'INSERT INTO Venues (Name, Street, City, State, Zip, Country, TimeZone, LatLon, Phone, Email, Website, Host, Notes) VALUES (:name, :street, :city, :state, :zip, :country, :timezone, :latlon, :phone, :email, :website, :host, :notes)';
    $stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute(array(":name" => $name, ":street" => $street, ":city" => $city, ":state" => $state, ":zip" => $zip, ":country" => $country, ":timezone" => $timezone, ":latlon" => $latlon, ":phone" => $phone, ":email" => $email, ":website" => $website, ":host" => $host, ":notes" => $notes));
    if ($stmt->rowCount() == 1) {
        echo '<p>"' . $name . '" creation succeeded.</p>';
    } else {
        echo '<p>"' . $name . '" creation failed.</p>';
    }
    $stmt->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    $dbh = null;
}
catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage();
}

Alternatively, I could just have separate lat and lon fields, but I was wanting to practice with msyql's built-in geometry functionality.

Edit...

Following the advise of this answer, I surrounded $latlon with POINT(). It didn't change the results, though.

Edit 2...

Here is the table structure, just in case something doesn't look correct.

VenueKey    int(11)
Name        varchar(255)
Street      varchar(255)
City        varchar(255)
State       varchar(2)
Zip         varchar(10)
Country     varchar(2)
TimeZone    varchar(20)
LatLon      point
Phone       varchar(20)
Email       varchar(255)
Website     varchar(255)
Host        varchar(255)
Notes       text

Answer 1

This should fix your issue:

$latlng = 'POINT(' . $json['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']. " " . $json['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng']. ')';

and then wrap your :latlon with PointFromText:

$sql = 'INSERT INTO Venues (Name, Street, City, State, Zip, Country, TimeZone, LatLon, Phone, Email, Website, Host, Notes) VALUES (:name, :street, :city, :state, :zip, :country, :timezone, PointFromText(:latlon), :phone, :email, :website, :host, :notes)';