Getting social (facebook, twitter, +1) counts of a url via php

social_counts.php

<?php


function get_tweets($url) {
	$json_string = file_get_contents('http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' . $url);
	$json = json_decode($json_string, true);
	return intval( $json['count'] );
}

function get_likes($url) {
	$json_string = file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=' . $url);
	$json = json_decode($json_string, true);
	return intval( $json[$url]['shares'] );
}

function get_plusones($url) {
	$curl = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://clients6.google.com/rpc");
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, '[{"method":"pos.plusones.get","id":"p","params":{"nolog":true,"id":"' . $url . '","source":"widget","userId":"@viewer","groupId":"@self"},"jsonrpc":"2.0","key":"p","apiVersion":"v1"}]');
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-type: application/json'));
	$curl_results = curl_exec ($curl);
	curl_close ($curl);

	$json = json_decode($curl_results, true);
	return intval( $json[0]['result']['metadata']['globalCounts']['count'] );
}


$url = 'http://mfyz.com';


print $url . ' has ' . get_tweets($url) . ' tweets, ' . get_likes($url) . ' likes and ' . get_plusones($url) . ' +1s';