Dynamic PHP Banner with your Latest Twitter Post

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<?php

//We are making a PNG image
header ("Content-type: image/png");

//Your Twitter Name
$name = "AboutPHP";

//This function gets your most recent twitter post for your banner
function twitter_status($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = false) {
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL,
"http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml?count=1");
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$src = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);
preg_match('/<text>(.*)<\/text>/', $src, $m);
$status = htmlentities($m[1]);
if( $hyperlinks ) $status = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]", "<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>", $status);
return($status);
}

• Starting the File
• Truncating the Status
• Create the Image