function get_status($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = true) { $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($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="%5C%22%5C%5C0%5C%22">\\0</a>', $status); return($status);}