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calebrown on 03/31/09


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Twitter Cache

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This is a simple function that will Cache twitter rss feeds locally so you don't max out your API limit.

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  1. function savetwit ($username) 
  2. {
  3. 	//create the rss feed
  4. 	$local_file = './twitterfeeds/'.$username.'.rss';
  5.  
  6. 	if (is_file($local_file))
  7. 		{
  8. 			//Find out how many seconds it has been since the file was last updated - in seconds
  9. 			$time_lapse = (strtotime("now") - filemtime($local_file));
  10. 				//if it has been more than 10 minutes, update the local feed
  11. 				if ($time_lapse > 600) 
  12. 					{
  13. 						//grab the feed from twitter
  14. 						$feed_grab = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.rss');
  15. 							//check to make sure the feed has content and isn't just some error message
  16. 							if (strlen($feed_grab) > 100)
  17. 								{
  18. 									//if all  looks good, update the local feed
  19. 									file_put_contents($local_file, $feed_grab);
  20. 								}
  21.  
  22.  
  23. 					}			
  24.  
  25.  
  26. 		} 
  27.  
  28. 	else 
  29. 		{
  30. 			//grab the feed from twitter
  31. 			$feed_grab = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.rss');
  32. 			//check to make sure the feed has content and isn't just some error message
  33. 				if (strlen($feed_grab) > 100)
  34. 					{
  35. 						//if all  looks good, update the local feed
  36. 						file_put_contents($local_file, $feed_grab);
  37. 					}
  38.  
  39. 		}
  40.  
  41. }

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