A YQL utility function in PHP

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<?php

function yql( $query )
{
    $params = array(
        'q' => $query,
        'debug' => 'true',
        'diagnostics' => 'true',
        'format' => 'json',
        'callback' => ''
    );
    $url = 'https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?'.http_build_query( $params );
    $ch = curl_init( $url );
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
    $json = curl_exec( $ch );
    $response = json_decode( $json );
    curl_close( $ch );
    return $response;
}

?>