Chris Matchett

My education board decided to block twitter so I got a hold of some code for our school website to allow students to see our school’s tweets.

The code is standard pear-twitter stuff, the cleverness is converting the twitter text url string to a real url.

    <?php
    // include class
    require_once(‘Services/Twitter.php’);
   
    try {
      // initialize service object
      $service = new Services_Twitter(‘user’, ‘password’);
     
      // get status updates posted by logged-in user and friends
      $response = $service->statuses->friends_timeline(); 
      if (count($response->status) > 0) {
        echo ‘<h2>Recent status updates</h2>’;
        foreach ($response->status as $status) {
            echo ‘<div><img src=”‘ . $status->user->profile_image_url . ‘” />’;
            $a=preg_replace(“/(http:\/\/|www|[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.|[a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+@)(([a-zA-Z0-9-][a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9-\.\/\_\?\%\#\&\=\;\~\!\(\)]+)/”,”<a
href=\”\\1\\2\”>\\1\\2</a>”,$status->text);

   echo $a . ‘<br/>’;
            echo ‘By: <em>’ . $status->user->screen_name . ‘</em> on ‘ . $status->created_at . ‘</div>’;
        }
      }
     
      // get recent posts on public timeline
    //  $response = $service->statuses->public_timeline(); 
    //  if (count($response->status) > 0) {
    //    echo ‘<h2>Recent public timeline updates</h2>’;
    //    foreach ($response->status as $status) {           
    //        echo ‘<div><img src=”‘ . $status->user->profile_image_url . ‘” />’;
    //        echo $status->text . ‘<br/>’;
    //        echo ‘By: <em>’ . $status->user->screen_name . ‘</em> on ‘ . $status->created_at . ‘</div>’;
    //    }
    //  }
           
      // perform logout
      $service->account->end_session();
    } catch (Exception $e) {
      die(‘ERROR: ‘ . $e->getMessage());
    }
    ?>