<?php
 
// Your twitter username & password.
$username = "YOUR_USERNAME";
$password = "YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD";
 
//Concatenate the username and password
$userpass = $username . ":" . $password;
 
//Make up the feed URL
$feed = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.atom?count=1";
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//Some variables for the cache
$cache_lifetime = 300; // Seconds to for cache to live
$cache_file = '/tmp/twitter'; // Path to cache file
 
//A function to parse the atom feed and pull out the useful info.
function parse_feed($feed, $username) {
  $stepOne = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
  $stepTwo = explode("</content>", $stepOne[1]);
 
  $tweet = $stepTwo[0];
  $tweet = str_replace("&lt;", "<", $tweet);
  $tweet = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $tweet);
  $tweet = str_replace($username . ":", "", $tweet); 
  return $tweet;
}
 
//Check for the cache. If it exists, use it. If not, create it. Either way, echo the feed.
if (file_exists($cache_file) && (filemtime($cache_file) + $cache_lifetime >= time()) ) { 
  // Cache good -> load
  echo unserialize(file_get_contents($cache_file));
} 
else {
  // Cache expired/disabled/missing -> fetch
 
  //Create a curl object, give it the feed and authentication
  $curl_handle=curl_init();
  curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL, $feed);
  curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userpass);
 
  //Return the result, don't print it. 
  curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
 
  //Make the connection, set the variable, close the connection.
  $twitterFeed = curl_exec($curl_handle);
  curl_close($curl_handle);
 
  //Save the result
  file_put_contents($cache_file, serialize(parse_feed($twitterFeed, $username)));
 
  //And echo the result
  echo unserialize(file_get_contents($cache_file));
} 
 
?>