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at May 7, 2011 06:02 by richerimage
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/** * Fetch the number of followers from twitter api * * @author Peter Ivanov * @copyright http://www.ooyes.net * @version 0.2 * @link http://www.ooyes.net * @param string $username * @return string */ function twitter_followers_counter($username) { $cache_file = CACHEDIR . 'twitter_followers_counter_' . md5 ( $username ); if (is_file ( $cache_file ) == false) { $cache_file_time = strtotime ( '1984-01-11 07:15' ); } else { $cache_file_time = filemtime ( $cache_file ); } $now = strtotime ( date ( 'Y-m-d H:i:s' ) ); $api_call = $cache_file_time; $difference = $now - $api_call; $api_time_seconds = 1800; if ($difference >= $api_time_seconds) { $api_page = 'http://twitter.com/users/show/' . $username; $xml = file_get_contents ( $api_page ); $profile = new SimpleXMLElement ( $xml ); $count = $profile->followers_count; if (is_file ( $cache_file ) == true) { unlink ( $cache_file ); } touch ( $cache_file ); file_put_contents ( $cache_file, strval ( $count ) ); return strval ( $count ); } else { $count = file_get_contents ( $cache_file ); return strval ( $count ); } }
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