Google Latitude PHP JSON script

<?php
function getGLatitude()
{
        $url = "http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?user=MY_USER_ID&type=json";
        $ch = curl_init($url)


        //return the transfer as a string
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

        // $output contains the output string
        $output = curl_exec($ch);

        // close curl resource to free up system resources
        curl_close($ch);


        $json = json_decode($output, true);
        return '<a href="http://maps.google.com?q='.urlencode($json['features'][0]['properties']['reverseGeocode']).'">'.$json['features'][0]['properties']['reverseGeocode'].'</a>';
}
?>