MySQL Great Circle Distance (Haversine formula)

Question

I've got a working PHP script that gets Longitude and Latitude values and then inputs them into a MySQL query. I'd like to make it solely MySQL. Here's my current PHP Code:

if ($distance != "Any" && $customer_zip != "") { //get the great circle distance

    //get the origin zip code info
    $zip_sql = "SELECT * FROM zip_code WHERE zip_code = '$customer_zip'";
    $result = mysql_query($zip_sql);
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
    $origin_lat = $row['lat'];
    $origin_lon = $row['lon'];

    //get the range
    $lat_range = $distance/69.172;
    $lon_range = abs($distance/(cos($details[0]) * 69.172));
    $min_lat = number_format($origin_lat - $lat_range, "4", ".", "");
    $max_lat = number_format($origin_lat + $lat_range, "4", ".", "");
    $min_lon = number_format($origin_lon - $lon_range, "4", ".", "");
    $max_lon = number_format($origin_lon + $lon_range, "4", ".", "");
    $sql .= "lat BETWEEN '$min_lat' AND '$max_lat' AND lon BETWEEN '$min_lon' AND '$max_lon' AND ";
    }

Does anyone know how to make this entirely MySQL? I've browsed the Internet a bit but most of the literature on it is pretty confusing.

Answer 1

From Google Code FAQ - Creating a Store Locator with PHP, MySQL & Google Maps:

Here's the SQL statement that will find the closest 20 locations that are within a radius of 25 miles to the 37, -122 coordinate. It calculates the distance based on the latitude/longitude of that row and the target latitude/longitude, and then asks for only rows where the distance value is less than 25, orders the whole query by distance, and limits it to 20 results. To search by kilometers instead of miles, replace 3959 with 6371.

SELECT id, ( 3959 * acos( cos( radians(37) ) * cos( radians( lat ) ) 
* cos( radians( lng ) - radians(-122) ) + sin( radians(37) ) * sin(radians(lat)) ) ) AS distance 
FROM markers 
HAVING distance < 25 
ORDER BY distance 
LIMIT 0 , 20;