Get lat,lng from googleapis from PHP

gistfile1.txt

    $direccion = "put here the adress";
    $resultado = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=".urlencode($direccion)."&sensor=false"));
   
    echo $resultado->results["0"]->geometry->location->lat;
    echo $resultado->results["0"]->geometry->location->lng;

Notice there may be more than one result (or none at all).