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).
*/
$link['1'] = 'http://www.site.com/';
// Start the system.
function external_url($url){
if($return = @file_get_contents($url)){
return $return;
}elseif(function_exists("curl_init")){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $return;
}elseif($return = @implode("", @file($url))){
return $return;
} else {
return NULL;
}
}
// Checks if the code is a number
if(is_numeric($_GET['code']) && is_array($link)){
if(isset($link[$_GET['code']])){
if(redirect_or_echo === 'redirect'){
header('location: '.$link[$_GET['code']]);
} elseif(redirect_or_echo === 'echo'){
echo external_url($link[$_GET['code']]);
}else{
if(RUN_ERRORS === TRUE){
echo 'Sorry, an internal error has occoured.';
}
}
} else {
if(RUN_ERRORS === TRUE){
echo 'Sorry, the code you have provided is incorrect.';
}
}
}else{
if(RUN_ERRORS === TRUE){
echo 'Sorry, the code you have provided is incorrect.';
}
}
/*
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.
You use this at your own risk.
*/
?>
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