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How to display Twitter updates using PHP (and without using curl)
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
# load the RSS -- replace 'lylo' with your user of choice
if($doc->load('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/lylo.rss')) {
echo "<ul>\n";
# number of <li> elements to display. 20 is the maximum
$max_tweets = 10;
$i = 1;
foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
# fetch the title from the RSS feed.
# Note: 'pubDate' and 'link' are also useful (I use them in the sidebar of this blog)
$tweet = $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
# the title of each tweet starts with "username: " which I want to remove
$tweet = substr($tweet, stripos($tweet, ':') + 1);
# OPTIONAL: turn URLs into links
$tweet = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@',
'<a href="$1">$1</a>', $tweet);
# OPTIONAL: turn @replies into links
$tweet = preg_replace("/@([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/",
"<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$1\">@$1</a>",
$tweet);
echo "<li>". $tweet . "</li>\n";
if($i++ >= $max_tweets) break;
}
echo "</ul>\n";
}
?>
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