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Get Twitter Tweets

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Some PHP code that can be used to get formatted HTML containing N number of tweets for a given twitter user.

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<?php
/*
Description: Twitter PHP code
Author: Andrew MacBean
Version: 1.0.0
*/
 
/** Method to make twitter api call for the users timeline in XML */ 
function twitter_status($twitter_id) {	
	$c = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml");
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
	$response = curl_exec($c);
	$responseInfo = curl_getinfo($c);
	curl_close($c);
	if (intval($responseInfo['http_code']) == 200) {
		if (class_exists('SimpleXMLElement')) {
			$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
			return $xml;
		} else {
			return $response;
		}
	} else {
		return false;
	}
}
 
/** Method to add hyperlink html tags to any urls, twitter ids or hashtags in the tweet */ 
function processLinks($text) {
	$text = utf8_decode( $text );
	$text = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1">$1</a>',  $text );
	$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])@([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\2\" >@\\2</a>'", $text);  
	$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])\#([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://hashtags.org/search?query=\\2\" >#\\2</a>'", $text);
	return $text;
}
 
/** Main method to retrieve the tweets and return html for display */
function get_tweets($twitter_id, 
					$nooftweets=3, 
					$dateFormat="D jS M y H:i", 
					$includeReplies=false, $dateTimeZone="Europe/London",
					$beforeTweetsHtml="<ul>", 
					$tweetStartHtml="<li class=\"tweet\"><span class=\"tweet-status\">",
					$tweetMiddleHtml="</span><br/><span class=\"tweet-details\">",
					$tweetEndHtml="</span></li>", 
					$afterTweetsHtml="</ul>") {
 
	date_default_timezone_set($dateTimeZone);
   	if ( $twitter_xml = twitter_status($twitter_id) ) {
		$result = $beforeTweetsHtml;
		foreach ($twitter_xml->status as $key => $status) {
			if ($includeReplies == true | substr_count($status->text,"@") == 0 | strpos($status->text,"@") != 0) {
				$message = processLinks($status->text);
				$result.=$tweetStartHtml.$message.$tweetMiddleHtml.date($dateFormat,strtotime($status->created_at)).$tweetEndHtml;
				++$i;
				if ($i == $nooftweets) break;
    			}
    		}
			$result.=$afterTweetsHtml;
    } 
	else {
        $result.= $beforeTweetsHtml."<li id='tweet'>Twitter seems to be unavailable at the moment</li>".$afterTweetsHtml;
    }	
    echo $result;
}
?>

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Posted By: bsides on December 11, 2009

Hello, for some reason, whenever I call get_tweets($user) I get the list but only with the dates and no tweets themselves. The code is unchanged, I'm just calling the funciont with a var which is a valid twitter name (like $user = "bsides";). Please help! :)

Posted By: bsides on December 11, 2009

Ok I got it working. The error in your script is at line 55. The var $message doesn't have anything. To fix this, just replace line 55 with:

$message = processLinks($status->text);

Now I'm working around foreign signs and encoding issues, but overall, great script. Thanks a lot :)

Posted By: gripnrip on May 11, 2010

Only just notices these comments, my bad, your completely correct and its now fixed. cheers.

Posted By: askar on September 24, 2010

hello .i hope you are doing well sir.sir i have a problem .i have you used your code.for the first time is was runnig.tweets were showing that time .but not got a message from the else portion that "Twitter seems to be unavailable at the moment". sir is the possible reasons for this message.how can i get rid of this message.plz sir give me some solution to this .i am new to twitter.i am waiting for kind and instant reply: Regards ASkar khan

Posted By: askar on September 24, 2010

hello .i hope you are doing well .sir i have a problem .i have used your code.for the first time is was runnig.tweets were showing that time .but now i got a message from the else portion that "Twitter seems to be unavailable at the moment". sir is there any possible reasons for this message.how can i get rid of this message.plz sir give me some solution to this .i am new to twitter.i am waiting for kind and instant reply: Regards ASkar khan

Posted By: f6design on October 8, 2010

Thanks for this. Super stuff. I borrowed your hashtag/url parsing for my own Twitter RSS parser: http://f6design.com/journal/2010/10/07/display-recent-twitter-tweets-using-php/ (and gave you credit of course).

One thing to note: Twitter limits the number of times a user client can fetch their RSS feed per hour, so on a busy website this limit will be quickly reached. The way around this is to cache the tweets for one hour after they are fetched.

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