tweets.php

<?php
/**
 * Simple twitter stream function
 *
 * Usage: $tweets = userTimeline("hecticjeff");
 */
function userTimeline($screenName)
{
    // Create a remote connection
    $twitter = curl_init("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name={$screenName}");

    // Tell curl to return the body of the response
    curl_setopt($twitter, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    // Execute the request
    $response = curl_exec($twitter);

    // Decode the results
    return json_decode($response);
}

usage.php

<?php
// Loop over tweets
foreach (userTimeline("hecticjeff") as $tweet) {
    echo $tweet->text . "\n";
}