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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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  1. <?php
  2. /*
  3. Description: Twitter PHP code
  4. Author: Andrew MacBean
  5. Version: 1.0.0
  6. */
  7.  
  8. /** Method to make twitter api call for the users timeline in XML */ 
  9. function twitter_status($twitter_id) {	
  10. 	$c = curl_init();
  11. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml");
  12. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  13. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
  14. 	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
  15. 	$response = curl_exec($c);
  16. 	$responseInfo = curl_getinfo($c);
  17. 	curl_close($c);
  18. 	if (intval($responseInfo['http_code']) == 200) {
  19. 		if (class_exists('SimpleXMLElement')) {
  20. 			$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
  21. 			return $xml;
  22. 		} else {
  23. 			return $response;
  24. 		}
  25. 	} else {
  26. 		return false;
  27. 	}
  28. }
  29.  
  30. /** Method to add hyperlink html tags to any urls, twitter ids or hashtags in the tweet */ 
  31. function processLinks($text) {
  32. 	$text = utf8_decode( $text );
  33. 	$text = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1">$1</a>',  $text );
  34. 	$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])@([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\2\" >@\\2</a>'", $text);  
  35. 	$text = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])\#([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1<a href=\"http://hashtags.org/search?query=\\2\" >#\\2</a>'", $text);
  36. 	return $text;
  37. }
  38.  
  39. /** Main method to retrieve the tweets and return html for display */
  40. function get_tweets($twitter_id, 
  41. 					$nooftweets=3, 
  42. 					$dateFormat="D jS M y H:i", 
  43. 					$includeReplies=false, $dateTimeZone="Europe/London",
  44. 					$beforeTweetsHtml="<ul>", 
  45. 					$tweetStartHtml="<li class=\"tweet\"><span class=\"tweet-status\">",
  46. 					$tweetMiddleHtml="</span><br/><span class=\"tweet-details\">",
  47. 					$tweetEndHtml="</span></li>", 
  48. 					$afterTweetsHtml="</ul>") {
  49.  
  50. 	date_default_timezone_set($dateTimeZone);
  51.    	if ( $twitter_xml = twitter_status($twitter_id) ) {
  52. 		$result = $beforeTweetsHtml;
  53. 		foreach ($twitter_xml->status as $key => $status) {
  54. 			if ($includeReplies == true | substr_count($status->text,"@") == 0 | strpos($status->text,"@") != 0) {
  55. 				$message = processLinks($status->text);
  56. 				$result.=$tweetStartHtml.$message.$tweetMiddleHtml.date($dateFormat,strtotime($status->created_at)).$tweetEndHtml;
  57. 				++$i;
  58. 				if ($i == $nooftweets) break;
  59.     			}
  60.     		}
  61. 			$result.=$afterTweetsHtml;
  62.     } 
  63. 	else {
  64.         $result.= $beforeTweetsHtml."<li id='tweet'>Twitter seems to be unavailable at the moment</li>".$afterTweetsHtml;
  65.     }	
  66.     echo $result;
  67. }
  68. ?>

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