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  1. define("USERNAME", "__YOU_TWITTER_USER_NAME_HERE__");
  2. define("PASSWORD", "__YOU_TWITTER_PASSWORD_HERE__");
  3.  
  4. // 1. Validate your credentials
  5. $validate = api("http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml");
  6. if ($validate->error) {
  7. 	die("<strong>Error: </strong>" . $validate->error);
  8. }
  9.  
  10. // 2. Get a list of your friends IDs
  11. $friends = simplexml2array(api("http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml"));
  12. if (isset($friends['id'])) {
  13. 	$friends = $friends['id'];
  14. }
  15. else {
  16. 	echo "Error getting friends!";
  17. 	exit;
  18. }
  19.  
  20. // 3. Unfollow everyone!
  21. if (is_array($friends) && count($friends) > 0) {
  22. 	foreach($friends as $f){
  23. 	    $xml = api("http://twitter.com/friendships/destroy/" . $f . ".xml", "DELETE");
  24. 	    if ($error = $xml->error) {
  25. 	        echo "<b>ERROR:</b> " . $f . "(" . $error. ")<br />";
  26. 	    }
  27. 		else {
  28. 			echo "Successfully unfollowed: " .  $f . "<br />";
  29. 	    }
  30. 		flush();
  31. 	}
  32. }
  33.  
  34. // **************************************************
  35. // Functions
  36.  
  37. // convert SimpleXML Object into an array
  38. function simplexml2array($xml) {
  39.    if (get_class($xml) == 'SimpleXMLElement') {
  40.        $attributes = $xml->attributes();
  41.        foreach($attributes as $k=>$v) {
  42.            if ($v) $a[$k] = (string) $v;
  43.        }
  44.        $x = $xml;
  45.        $xml = get_object_vars($xml);
  46.    }
  47.    if (is_array($xml)) {
  48.        if (count($xml) == 0) return (string) $x; // for CDATA
  49.        foreach($xml as $key=>$value) {
  50.            $r[$key] = simplexml2array($value);
  51.        }
  52.        if (isset($a)) $r['@'] = $a;    // Attributes
  53.        return $r;
  54.    }
  55.    return (string) $xml;
  56. }
  57.  
  58. // Calls Twitter API and returns SimpleXML Object
  59. function api($url, $method="GET"){
  60.     $ch = curl_init();
  61.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $method);
  62.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  63.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
  64.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
  65.     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, USERNAME.":".PASSWORD);
  66.     $buffer = curl_exec($ch);
  67.     curl_close($ch);
  68.     return(simplexml_load_string($buffer));
  69. }

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