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

array(
'lastrequest' => 123,
'tweets' => array ()
)

now in your code put a check to see if the timestamp in the datastore for lastrequest is more than X seconds old. If it is then its time to update your data.

serialize and store the array in a file, pretty simple