I have the same problem.
Location.php
$url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=' . urlencode($temp_query) .'&sensor=false';
//encode $postcode string and construct the url query
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->CI->agent->agent_string());
$geocode_data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$output = json_decode($geocode_data);
I noticed that $output is not created.
