get the number of Facebook likes, shares, comments, etc. for a given URI

Facebook Counts

function get_facebook_likes(){
	//based on http://halgatewood.com/get-number-of-facebook-likes-for-a-url/

	$query = "select total_count,like_count,comment_count,share_count,click_count from link_stat where url='{$uri}'";
	$call = "https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=" . rawurlencode($query) . "&format=json";

	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $call);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	$output = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	$data = reset(json_decode($output));

	//$data->total_count;
	//$data->like_count;
	//$data->comment_count;
	//$data->share_count;
	//$data->click_count;

	//this should be stored in a Transient/cached to avoid subsequent calls
}