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#!/usr/bin/php -q

<?php

//shell_exec('cd /var/www/html/');
chdir('/var/www/html/');

$webroot="/var/www/html/";
$xml = shell_exec("wget http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/211898317.rss");

//echo ">>".$xml;
$xml_file = simplexml_load_file("211898317.rss");

if(count($xml_file->channel->item < 5)){
        $y = count($xml_file->channel->item);
} else {
        $y = 5;
}

//echo "y=".$y;

$fh = fopen("twitter.txt", 'w') or die('Could not open file!');
for($i = 0;$i<$y;$i++){
 fwrite($fh, addslashes(str_replace('OTNTelemedicine: ', '', $xml_file->channel->item[$i]->description)."|sep|"));
}
fclose($fh);

shell_exec("rm 211898317.rss");

?>