Single function Freebase SDK

3base.php

function freebase($query, $lang = 'it,en', $limit = 5) {
        $isid = (strpos($query, '/m/') !== false);
        if($isid)
                $limit = 1;
        $q = array(
                'key' => 'PUT_YOUR_KEY_HERE',
                'query' => $query,
                'output' => '(name description notable)',
                'lang' => $lang,
                'limit' => $limit
        );
        $service = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/search';
        $uri = $service.'?'.http_build_query($q);
        $res = json_decode(file_get_contents($uri), true);
        /* XXX check for errors (also HTTP errors) */
        if(isset($res['error']))
                return false;
        if(!count($res['result']))
                return array();
        if($isid)
                return $res['result'][0];
        return $res['result'];
}