PHP to html with twitter api 1.1 -

this simple question have following php file references code twitter follower count. works in html website file want display "follower count" text , in php not sure line add. have script referenced in html , right trying using <span id="followers_count"></span> nothing appears. doing wrong or add php file take follower count , display text in html? thanks!

<?php        require_once('js/twitter-api-php/twitterapiexchange.php');      /** set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/     $settings = array(     'oauth_access_token' => "key here",     'oauth_access_token_secret' => "key here",     'consumer_key' => "key here",     'consumer_secret' => "key here"     );      $ta_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json';     $getfield = '?screen_name=inovize;     $requestmethod = 'get';     $twitter = new twitterapiexchange($settings);     $follow_count=$twitter->setgetfield($getfield)     ->buildoauth($ta_url, $requestmethod)     ->performrequest();     $data = json_decode($follow_count, true);     $followers_count=$data[0]['user']['followers_count'];     echo $followers_count;      *do add here take followers_count html text?*       }); 

you echoing out count ever code resides in php code, @ top of page.

echo $followers_count; 

comment out line

//echo $followers_count; 

and have span echo line

<span id="followers_count"><?php echo $followers_count; ?></span>