Google Maps location finder (based on https://gist.github.com/4066383)

gistfile1.php

<?php
class GoogleMaps {
	private function find($location = null) {
		if ($location == null) {
			return false;
		}

		$uri_parts = array(
			'q' => urlencode($location),
			'output' => 'json',
			'oe' => 'utf8',
			'source' => 'false'
		);
		$uri = 'https://maps.google.com/maps/geo?' . http_build_query($uri_parts, '&', null);

		$ci = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_URL, $uri);
		curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
		curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
		curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
		curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
		curl_setopt($ci, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);

		$result = curl_exec($ci);

		curl_close($ci);

		$result = json_decode($result, true);
		if ($result['Status']['code'] == 200) {
			return $result;
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	}
}