Geocode Service via CURL

geocodeService.php

<?php
if (!function_exists('geocodeService')) {
	function geocodeService($endereco)
	{
		$endereco = str_replace (" ", "+", urlencode($endereco));
		$details_url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=".$endereco;

		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $details_url);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
		$response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

   // If Status Code is ZERO_RESULTS, OVER_QUERY_LIMIT, REQUEST_DENIED or INVALID_REQUEST
		if ($response['status'] != 'OK') {
			return null;
		}

		$geometry = $response['results'][0]['geometry'];

		$longitude = $geometry['location']['lng'];
		$latitude = $geometry['location']['lat'];

		$array = array(
			'latitude' => $geometry['location']['lat'],
			'longitude' => $geometry['location']['lng'],
			);

		return $array;
	}
}