<?php
header('Content-type: text/plain');

echo "Starting script\n";

$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/771362.json'; // Get the JSON URL to your account

echo "Retrieving JSON data from Twitter\n";

$curl_handle = curl_init(); // Open up a CURL connection
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2); // Timeout connecting in 2 seconds
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20); // Timeout getting data in 20 seconds (since Twitter has been slow with growing popularity)
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // Get data back

$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle); // Execute the request and get data back
curl_close($curl_handle); // Close the connection!

if ($buffer) { // If data is returned
	$data = json_decode($buffer); // Decode JSON string

	$twitter_when = date('n/j/Y g:ia',abs(strtotime($data[0]->created_at . " GMT"))); // When was last tweet posted?
	$twitter_text = $data[0]->text; // Last tweet
} else { // Otherwise
	die("Couldn't fetch data"); // Error occurred while fetching, most likely a timeout
}

echo "Generating new image \n";

//$im = imagecreatetruecolor(560, 72); // Uncomment this and delete the next line to create a blank image
$im = imagecreatefrompng("virb.png"); // This creates an image from an existing PNG image

$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 173, 173, 173); // Define some colors to use
$grey = imagecolorallocate($im, 100, 100, 100); // Color for side the date/time

$twitter_text = wordwrap($twitter_text,72); // Because my image is only 560 pixels wide, text can run out of the boundaries and GD library has nothing to remedy that, so this function will wrap the text after 72 characters. This may differ for your image.

$font = 'SomeFont.otf'; // Custom font. You may use one of four or five standard fonts, but they're ugly

imagefttext($im, 10, 0, 10, 20, $white, $font, $twitter_text, array('linespacing'=>1.7)); // Write out to the image Twitter status with appropriate positioning
imagefttext($im, 9, 0, 11, 61, $grey, $font, $twitter_when, array('linespacing'=>1.7)); // Same with date/time of last tweet

imagepng($im,"twitter.png"); // Create twitter.png
imagedestroy($im); // Free up some memory

echo "Everything done! Quitting...\n";
?>