// http://frankkoehl.com/2009/08/archive-entire-twitter-timeline/

    /**
     * INSTALLATION
     * execute $sql on your DB to get the latest twitter post
     * set the value of `id` to a variable named $since_id
     * set $since_id to false if the table is empty (i.e. a new install)
    **/

$con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect to localhost: ' . mysql_error());
  }

$db_selected = mysql_select_db('dbname', $con);
if (!$db_selected) {
    die ('Can\'t use dbname : ' . mysql_error());
}

// table in dbname is here named twitter 

$query = sprintf("SELECT `id` FROM `twitter` ORDER BY `id` DESC LIMIT 1");

$result = mysql_query($query);

if (!$result) {
    $message  = 'Invalid query: ' . mysql_error() . "\n";
    $message .= 'Whole query: ' . $query;
    die($message);
}

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
    $since_id = $row['id'];
}

if ( ! isset($since_id) ) {
    die('No id to be had - check table. ' . mysql_error());
}

	 /** End INSTALLATION **/