I am using twitters search API to view all the tweets that use a particular hashtag I want to view.

However, I want to use the stream function, so, I only get recent ones, and so, I can then store them.

  <?php
        global $total, $hashtag;
        $hashtag = $_POST['hash'];
        $total = 0;
        function getTweets($hash_tag, $page) {
              global $total, $hashtag;
              $url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q='.urlencode($hash_tag).'&';
              $url .= 'page='.$page;    
              $ch = curl_init($url);
              curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
              $json = curl_exec ($ch);
              curl_close ($ch);
              echo "<pre>";    
              $json_decode = json_decode($json);
              print_r($json_decode->results);

              $json_decode = json_decode($json);        
              $total += count($json_decode->results);    
              if($json_decode->next_page){
                   $temp = explode("&",$json_decode->next_page);        
                   $p = explode("=",$temp[0]);                
                   getTweets($hashtag,$p[1]);
              }        
        }

        getTweets($hashtag,1);
        echo $total;
  ?>

The above code is what I have been using to search for the tweets I want.

What do I need to do to change it so I can stream the tweets instead?

I know I would have to use the stream url https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json , but what do I need to change after that is where I don't know what to do.

Obviously, I know I'll need to write the database sql but I want to just capture the stream first and view it.

How would I do this? Is the code I have been using not any good for just capturing the stream?