What's the best way to use the Twitter API via PHP?

Question

A client would like me to add their Twitter stream to their website homepage, using a custom solution built in PHP.

The Twitter API obviously has a limited number of

Answer 1

Since we don't know your server config I suggest you set up a cron job (assuming your on a Linux box). If you have something like cPanel on a shared hosting environment than it should be not much of an issue. You need to write a script that is called by cron and that will get the latest tweets and write them to a file (xml?). You can schedule cron to run every 30 min. or what ever you want.