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  1. <?php
  2. /* USE <?php echo $twitterFeed; ?>  TO OUTPUT THE FEED */ 
  3.  
  4. /* YOUR TWITTER USER INFORMATION */
  5. $twitID = 'booshstudios';
  6.  
  7. /* TWITTER X TIME AGO CONVERSION */
  8. function niceTime($time) {
  9.   $delta = time() - $time;
  10.   if ($delta < 60) {
  11.     return 'less than a minute ago';
  12.   } else if ($delta < 120) {
  13.     return 'about a minute ago';
  14.   } else if ($delta < (45 * 60)) {
  15.     return floor($delta / 60) . ' minutes ago';
  16.   } else if ($delta < (90 * 60)) {
  17.     return 'about an hour ago';
  18.   } else if ($delta < (24 * 60 * 60)) {
  19.     return 'about ' . floor($delta / 3600) . ' hours ago';
  20.   } else if ($delta < (48 * 60 * 60)) {
  21.     return '1 day ago.';
  22.   } else {
  23.     return floor($delta / 86400) . ' days ago';
  24.   }
  25. }
  26.  
  27. /* GET TWITTER FEED FUNCTION */					
  28. function getTwitterStatus($twitterUser, $howMany = 1) {
  29. 	/* ERROR HANDLING - DEFAULT IS SET AT 0 (OFF) */
  30. 	error_reporting(0);
  31. 	$url = sprintf("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/%s.xml?count=%d", $twitterUser, $howMany); 
  32. 	$feed_data_get = file_get_contents($url);
  33. 	if (!$feed_data_get) {
  34. 		// IF THE FEED IS UNAVAILABLE OUTPUT ERROR
  35. 		echo '<center>Feed  Unavailable, Try Again Later.</center>';
  36. 	} else {
  37. 		// IF IT IS AVAILABLE OUTPUT FEED
  38. 		$parsed = new SimpleXMLElement($feed_data_get);
  39. 		$tweets = array();
  40. 		foreach($parsed->status as $status) {
  41. 			$message = preg_replace("/http:\/\/(.*?)\/[^ ]*/", '<a href="\\0">\\0</a>',
  42. 			$status->text);
  43. 			$time = niceTime(strtotime(str_replace("+0000", "", $status->created_at)));
  44. 			$tweets[] = array('message' => $message, 'time' => $time);
  45. 		}
  46. 		return $tweets;
  47. 	}
  48. }
  49.  
  50. /* TWITTER OUTPUT - Don't touch unless you know what you're doing. */
  51. $status = getTwitterStatus($twitID);
  52. $twitterFeed = ($status[0]['message']); 
  53. ?>

URL: http://booshstudios.com

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