Grab a twitter user's avatar

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// Grab a twitter user's avatar with php
//
// usage:
// $photo = get_tiwtter_avatar('alexpgates');
//
// requires xmlize to parse xml into an array
// xmlize is available here: https://github.com/rmccue/XMLize

function get_twitter_avatar($u){
	$Url = "http://twitter.com/users/$u.xml";
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
	$data = curl_exec($ch); 
	curl_close($ch);

	$arr = xmlize($data);
	$photo = array();
	$photo['thumb'] = $arr['user']['#']['profile_image_url'][0]['#'];
	$photo['big'] = str_replace('_normal.', '.', $photo['thumb']);
	if($photo['thumb'] == ''){
		return('twitter_error');
	}
	return($photo);
}