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Twitter Followers Image List

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A simple script to show a followers list in Wordpress. (It can be used in other places also, you have to change the WP specific variables). The script needs to create a cache file to not overload Twitter API.

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  1. <?php
  2. //replace $options['twitter'] with the twitter Username you want to use.
  3. ?>	
  4.  
  5. 		<?php
  6. 		$xmlfollowersUrl = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers/'.$options['twitter'].'.xml';
  7.  
  8. 		if (file_exists(WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/uploads/twitter_followers.xml')) {
  9. 		$data = unserialize(file_get_contents(WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/uploads/twitter_followers.xml'));
  10. 			if ($data['timestamp'] > time() - 120 * 60) {
  11. 			$twitter_followers = $data['twitter_result'];
  12. 			}
  13. 		}
  14.  
  15. if (!$twitter_followers) { // cache doesn't exist or is older than 10 mins
  16.     $twitter_followers = file_get_contents($xmlfollowersUrl); // or whatever your API call is
  17.  
  18.     $data = array ('twitter_followers' => $twitter_followers, 'timestamp' => time());
  19.     file_put_contents(WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/uploads/twitter_followers.xml', serialize($data));
  20. }
  21.  
  22.  
  23. 		$dom = new DOMDocument;
  24. 		$s = simplexml_load_string($twitter_followers);
  25. 		$count = 0;
  26. 		echo '<ul class="seguidores">';
  27. 		foreach($s->user as $follower):
  28. 			if(++$count > 50){
  29. 				break;
  30. 				}			
  31. 			echo '<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/'.$follower->screen_name.'"><img width="32" height="32" src="'.$follower->profile_image_url.'" alt="'.$follower->name.'" title="'.$follower->name.': '.$follower->status->text.'"/></a></li>';		
  32. 		endforeach;
  33. 		echo '</ul>';				
  34. 		?>

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