Displaying Recent Stumbles (From StumbleUpon)
About the Author
Mike Rogers is a Web Developer who is currently at University studying Web Technologies. He also is the founder of Full On Design. He has several years experience freelancing and you can follow him on Twitter (Rogem002).
StumbleUpon is a funky web 2.0 community where it recommends websites you may be interested in based on other people similar interests. Unfortunately they do not have an API for easy integration. Luckily though, they do offer RSS Feeds for user’s activity. Here is the code you need to show your recent stumbles:
<?php # File created on 3rd April 2009 by Mike Rogers (http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/).
/*
function – recent_stumbles(string $username [, string $type= NULL [, int $limit = 5]])
$username – The stumbleupon username, such as rogem002
$type – Default: NULL – What you want to limit your rss to show. Can be NULL, blog, comments, favorites or reviews
$limit – Default: 5 – how many tweets you wish to show, must be numeric.
*/
function recent_stumbles($username, $type=NULL, $limit=5){
if(!is_numeric($limit)){$limit = 5;}
if($type !== NULL && $type !== 'blog' && $type !== 'comments' && $type !== 'favorites' && $type !== 'reviews'){$type = NULL;}
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/'.urlencode($username).'/'.$type);
$items_count= count($xml->channel->item);
if($items_count < $limit){$limit = $items_count;}
$i = 0;
$return .= '
<ul>';
while($i < $limit){
$return .= '
<li title="'.$xml->channel->item[$i]->title.'"><!– '.$xml->channel->item[$i]->pubDate.' –>
<a href="'.$xml->channel->item[$i]->link.'" title="'.$xml->channel->item[$i]->title.'"><img src="'.$xml->channel->item[$i]->enclosure["url"].'" alt="'.$xml->channel->item[$i]->title.'" border="0" />
'.$xml->channel->item[$i]->title.'</a></li>
';
$i++;
}
$return .= '</ul>';
return $return;
}
echo recent_stumbles('Rogem002', 'favorites', 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.
*/
?>