Twitter feed on your website with cURL and PHP

Pulling code from here and there, I gathered enough information to create a small function that allow you to pull your Twitter feed and display it in your website. What you do is basically call the function and pass a couple parameters. The styling can be done with CSS.

function pull_twitter_feeds($username, $limit=4){
  $url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:'.$username.'&rpp='.$limit;

  // Set up and execute the curl process
  $curl_handle = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
  curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
  curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
  curl_close($curl_handle);
  preg_match_all('/<content type=\"html\">(.+?)<\/content>/is', $buffer, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

  foreach($matches[1] as $key => $value){
    $tweets[] = html_entity_decode($value);
  }

  return $tweets;
}

How to use? Call the function from within your PHP script and then fetch the returned array. The following is a good example of what I am using on Ingeniarte.com:

<h2>My Twitter Feed</h2>
<div class="twitter_feed">
      <?php
      $tweets = pull_twitter_feeds('dannyherran', 5);
      if($tweets){
        echo '<ul class="tweets">';
        foreach($tweets as $key => $value){
          echo '<li>'.$value.'</li>';
       }
        echo '</ul>';
      }
      ?>
</div>