get profile picture from twitter

profile_picture_twitter.php

<?php
  /**
   * @author Duken Marga
   * dukenmarga [at] gmail.com
   * Get profile picture from twitter
   * You can clean up and optimize the code
  **/
  getImageTwitter('dukenmarga');

  function getImageTwitter($account = 'dukenmarga'){
    $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=$account&count=1';
    $xml = simplexml_load_file($url);
    foreach($xml->children() as $status){
      foreach($status->children() as $item){
	if($item->getName() == 'user'){
	  foreach($item->children() as $profile){
	    if($profile->getName() == 'name'){
	      $name = $profile;
	    }
	    if($profile->getName() == 'location'){
	      $location = $profile;
	    }
	    if($profile->getName() == 'description'){
	      $description = $profile;
	    }
	    if($profile->getName() == 'statuses_count'){
	      $statuses_count = $profile;
	    }
	    if($profile->getName() == 'friends_count'){
	      $friends_count = $profile;
	    }
	    if($profile->getName() == 'followers_count'){
	      $followers_count = $profile;
	    }
	    if($profile->getName() == 'profile_image_url'){
	      $img = $profile;
	    }
	  }
	}
      }
    }
    echo "<a href='http://twitter.com/$account' title='$name'>
	  <img class='profpic' src='$img' /></a>";
  }