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PHP: Simple MyTweets Function

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A simple PHP function for fetching tweets. Just provide your Twitter screen name and how many tweets you want and that is it. The function returns a simplified result set because you rarely need all the stuff that the Twitter API throws your way. If you need everything then just put FALSE as the last argument.

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  1. function myTweets($screenname, $count=5, $simple=TRUE) {
  2. 	$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name={$screenname}&count={$count}&include_rts=1";
  3. 	$data = @file_get_contents($url);
  4. 	if ($http_response_header[0] != 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK'):
  5. 		return FALSE;
  6. 	endif;
  7. 	$data = json_decode($data);
  8. 	if ($simple == TRUE):
  9. 		$out = array();
  10. 		foreach ($data as $tweet):
  11. 			$o = new stdClass;
  12. 			$o->text = htmlentities($tweet->text, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', FALSE);
  13. 			$o->id = $tweet->id_str;
  14. 			$o->timestamp = strtotime($tweet->created_at);
  15. 			$o->url = "https://twitter.com/#!/{$screenname}/status/{$tweet->id_str}";
  16. 			$out[] = $o;
  17. 		endforeach;
  18. 		$data = $out;
  19. 	endif;
  20. 	return $data;
  21. }
  22.  
  23. $tweets = myTweets('sverrimo', 2);
  24. echo '<pre>', print_r($tweets);

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