how to use fopen to open url i get it from twitter

[Mahfouz]

i already have code to get last tweet using curl

<?php
$username = "xx";
$password = "xxx";

$timeline = curl_init("https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml");

curl_setopt($timeline, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.":".$password);
curl_setopt($timeline, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$result = curl_exec($timeline);
$result = new simpleXMLElement($result);
echo $result->status[0]->text;

?>

and it works good and get my last tweet

my tweets contain url i want to open it using fopen

   $link = fopen($result, "r");
   fclose($link);

the last one doesn't work < so how to open the url i get from tweeter

[NogDog]

fopen() does not read anything from the file, it just returns a file "handle" (or false if it can't get one), which can then be used by related functions. If you just want to grab the entire text, use [man]file_get_contents/man -- assuming your PHP configuration allows opening files via URLs.