Display Facebook Likes & Shares PHP function

function facebook_shares($url){
  $fql  = "SELECT url, normalized_url, share_count, like_count, comment_count, ";
  $fql .= "total_count, commentsbox_count, comments_fbid, click_count FROM ";
  $fql .= "link_stat WHERE url = '".$url."'";

  $apifql="https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?format=json&query=".urlencode($fql);
  $fb_json=file_get_contents($apifql);
  return json_decode($fb_json);
}

In the Following Format

$fb = facebook_shares('https://www.facebook.com/redbull');

// facebook share count
echo $fb[0]->share_count;

// facebook like count
echo $fb[0]->like_count;

// facebook comment count
echo $fb[0]->comment_count;