PHP: Simple MyTweets Function


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A simple PHP function for fetching tweets. Just provide your Twitter screen name and how many tweets you want and that is it. The function returns a simplified result set because you rarely need all the stuff that the Twitter API throws your way. If you need everything then just put FALSE as the last argument.


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  1. function myTweets($screenname, $count=5, $simple=TRUE) {
  2. $url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name={$screenname}&count={$count}&include_rts=1";
  3. $data = @file_get_contents($url);
  4. if ($http_response_header[0] != 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK'):
  5. return FALSE;
  6. endif;
  7. $data = json_decode($data);
  8. if ($simple == TRUE):
  9. $out = array();
  10. foreach ($data as $tweet):
  11. $o = new stdClass;
  12. $o->text = htmlentities($tweet->text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', FALSE);
  13. $o->id = $tweet->id_str;
  14. $o->timestamp = strtotime($tweet->created_at);
  15. $o->url = "https://twitter.com/#!/{$screenname}/status/{$tweet->id_str}";
  16. $out[] = $o;
  17. endforeach;
  18. $data = $out;
  19. endif;
  20. return $data;
  21. }
  22.  
  23. $tweets = myTweets('sverrimo', 2);
  24. echo '<pre>', print_r($tweets);

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