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Use PHP to add your Twitter feed to any page

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While I was building my wonder of me portal page for TimesToCome I thought it’d be neat to add in my twitter stream.

Here is some very simple PHP code to do so. Now I was lazy and I only check for one link in the tweet. 99% of the time that is sufficient. The only thing you need to change is to change the user name from timestocome to your username. Any other changes are optional.

$username = “timestocome”;
$tweets = fetch_rss(‘http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/’.$username.’.rss’);

foreach ( $tweets->items as $tweet ){

print “<hr>”;

$twit = ” “.substr(strstr($tweet['description'],’: ‘), 2, strlen($tweet['description'])).” “;
$link = $tweet['link'];

// hack around php null == 0 ugh!
$xtwit = “x” . $twit;
$mark = strpos( $xtwit, “http://” );

if ( $mark > 0 ){ // we have a link in our tweet perhaps more than one

$l = substr ( $xtwit, $mark, strlen($xtwit) );
$l = substr ( $l, 0, strpos( $l, ” ” ));
$full_link = “<a href=\”$l\”>$l</a>”;
$xtwit = str_replace ( $l, $full_link, $xtwit );
$xtwit = substr ( $xtwit, 1, strlen($xtwit));

print “<br><p>$xtwit <a href=\”$link\”>#</a></p>”;

}else{

print “<br><p>$twit <a href=\”$link\”>#</a></p>”;

}
$time = $tweet['pubdate'];
$time = substr( $time, 0, strlen($time)-6);
print  ” $time “;

}

Written by Linda MacPhee-Cobb

August 18th, 2008 at 5:00 am

Posted in hack your template,how to,php

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  1. You might be interested to know that === is what you use to test the result of strpos. It knows the difference between null and zero.

    gingerbeardman

    15 Jul 09 at 3:37 am

  2. Thank you! That’ll cut out several operations.

    ljmacphee

    15 Jul 09 at 9:13 pm

  3. Hi,

    Not sure if you still use this, but I found this via Google. I’ve updated the script somewhat:

    channel->item;
    for($a=0;$a<numOfTweets;$a++) {
    $tweet = $tweets{$a};
    echo "”.utf8_decode(preg_replace(
    array( “@https?\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(/\S*)?@i”,
    “@#([a-zA-Z0-9]+)@i”,
    “@\@([a-zA-Z0-9]+)@i”),
    array( “$0“,
    “$0“,
    “$0“),
    substr(stristr($tweet->description,’: ‘), 2)));
    echo ” link.”\”>#“;
    // echo $tweet->pubDate; // if you want to show the date/time
    }
    ?>

    ollybenson

    17 Oct 10 at 3:36 pm

  4. Here’s my updated code:

    channel->item;
    for($a=0;$a<numOfTweets;$a++) {
    $tweet = $tweets{$a};
    echo "”.utf8_decode(preg_replace(
    array( “@https?\://[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(/\S*)?@i”,
    “@#([a-zA-Z0-9]+)@i”,
    “@\@([a-zA-Z0-9]+)@i”),
    array( “$0“,
    “$0“,
    “$0“),
    substr(stristr($tweet->description,’: ‘), 2)));
    echo ” link.”\”>#“;
    // echo $tweet->pubDate; // if you want to show the date/time
    }
    ?>

    ollybenson

    17 Oct 10 at 3:39 pm

  5. No, sorry, doesn’t want to paste properly into the comments box.

    ollybenson

    17 Oct 10 at 3:40 pm

  6. Thank you. I was buried in code all day I just came up for air.

    WP is finicky about scripts in comments because of all the cross-site scripting hacks I’m impressed you got it to take.

    I stopped using it because if twitter.com went down it makes the website load too slowly to be useful. PHP has a long built in timeout.

    Do you know any way to shorten that timeout?

    timestocome

    18 Oct 10 at 7:48 pm

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