script to cache twitter timeline (modified from http://brenelz.com/blog/build-a-php-twitter-widget/)

cacheTweets

<?php
function twitterCapture($type) {
        // Set your username and password here
        $user = 'rsc_ne_scotland'; // Twitter Username
		if ($type == "json") $type .= "?callback=twitterCallback2&count=8";

        $tw = curl_init("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{$user}.$type"); //grabs the JSON format of your timelines
        curl_setopt($tw,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); // Timeout (for when Twitter is down)
        curl_setopt($tw,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); // returns
        $json = curl_exec ($tw); // Executes the cURL and puts it into the varible
        return $json; // returns what was grabbed
}
function checkandWrite($type){
$cachefile = 'cache/JISCRSCScotNE.'.$type; // the location to your cache file
$cachetime = 10 * 60; // set the cach time 10 * 60 (1 hour)
	// if the file exists		// if and the time it was created is less then cache time
if ( (file_exists($cachefile)) && ( time() - $cachetime < filemtime($cachefile) ) ) {
// script will not use the cached version
}else{ // the file didn't exist or is old
	ob_start(); // turn on the output buffering
	$fp = fopen($cachefile, 'w'); // opens for writing only or will creat it's not there
	fwrite($fp, twitterCapture($type)); // writes to the file what was grabbed from the previouse function
	fclose($fp); // closes
	ob_end_flush(); // finishes and flushes the output buffer
}
}
checkandWrite("json");
checkandWrite("rss");
?>