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neal_grosskopf on 09/01/09


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Custom Twitter Badge Using PHP

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URL: http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.php?pid=57

Display the number of people following you on Twitter using this custom Twitter badge. The code simply returns a number so you can style it however you like.

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  1. function curl($url)
  2. {
  3. 	$ch = curl_init($url);
  4. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  5. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
  6. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"www.YOURDOMAIN.com");
  7. 	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,10);
  8. 	$data = curl_exec($ch);
  9. 	curl_close($ch);
  10. 	return $data;
  11. }
  12.  
  13. function GetTwitterFollowerCount($username)
  14. {
  15. 	$twitter_followers = curl("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/".$username.".xml?count=1");
  16. 	$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($twitter_followers, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
  17. 	return = $xml->status->user->followers_count;
  18. }
  19.  
  20. echo GetTwitterFollowerCount("YourTwitterName");

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Posted By: neal_grosskopf on September 4, 2009

I have an error on line 17 here. It should read: return $xml->status->user->followers_count;

Sorry for the mistake.

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