Geocoder.us user Todd Gardiner of Broomfield Designers sent in this code. "Here is a code snippet that I am currently using for apache to access your system and integrate a geocode straight into a google mashup. Apache for now, unlike IE, passes credentials via URL."
We like open source, so we shall post. I left some of my debugging comments (// for those unfamiliar) and other goodies. This will take an address and code it via a GET or POST from a form and then add a 30 mile nautical range for further use in the code. I haven't included that as it is primarily mysql and java.