Full On Design

Twitter has sprung to fame in the last few months, mostly thanks to its fantastic API. Here is a really quick and easy way to display your recent tweets on your website.

<?php # File created on  1st April 2009 by Mike Rogers (http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/).
/*
function - recent_tweets(string $username [, int $limit = 5])
	$username - Your twitter username, such as rogem002
	$limit - Default: 5 - how many tweets you wish to show, must be numeric.
*/

function recent_tweets($username, $limit=5){
	if(!is_numeric($limit)){$limit = 5;}
	$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3A'.urlencode($username));
	$items_count= count($xml->entry);
	if($items_count < $limit){$limit = $items_count;}
	$i = 0;
	$return .= '
<ul>';
	while($i < $limit){
		$return .= '
<li title="'.$xml->entry[$i]->title.'"><!-- '.$xml->entry[$i]->published.' -->'.$xml->entry[$i]->content.'</li>

';
		$i++;
	}
	$return .=  '</ul>

';

	return $return;
}

echo recent_tweets('rogem002', 5);

/*
You are free to share, modify and use this code for commercial  uses. Please give a link back (to http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/ ) if you can, but you don't have you.
*/
?>

Edit: This only works for Twitterers who have privacy settings open (thanks Dan from XDnet.co.uk for the heads up).