Show amount of twitter followers with php.

This php code will retrieve the number of twitter followers you have and show it on your page, very simples.

Place this code whereever you want to show the number:
JUST REPLACE YOUR_TWITTER_NAME with your twitter name.

Code:

<?php
function get_data($url) {
   $ch = curl_init();
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 80);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer);
   //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
   $document = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch);
   return $document;
}
$urlpage_data = get_data("http://www.twitter.com/YOUR_TWITTER_NAME");
preg_match_all('#<span id="follower_count" class="stats_count numeric">(.*?)</span>#is', $urlpage_data, $urlmatches);
echo "You have ". $urlmatches[1][0] ." Twitter Followers";
?>