Twitter Badge

twitter-status.php

<?php
// Example: Get a single tweet.
$status = getTwitterStatus("manas");
echo($status[0]['message'] . ' - ' . $status[0]['time']);

// Example: Get multiple tweets.
$statuses = getTwitterStatus("manas", 100);
foreach ($statuses as $status) {
  echo($status['message'] . ' - ' . $status['time']);
}

twitter.php

/**
 * A simple Twitter status display script.
 * Useful as a status badge for JavaScript non-compliant browsers, where the
 * insertion of the status message must be performed on the server.
 *
 * @author Manas Tungare, manas@tungare.name
 * @version 1.1
 * @copyright Manas Tungare, 2007 onwards.
 * @license Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0.
 */
function getTwitterStatus($twitterUser, $howMany = 1) {
  $url = sprintf("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/%s.xml?count=%d",
      $twitterUser, $howMany);
  $parsed = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($url));

  $tweets = array();
  foreach($parsed->status as $status) {
    $message = preg_replace("/http:\/\/(.*?)\/[^ ]*/", '<a href="\\0">\\0</a>',
        $status->text);
    $time = niceTime(strtotime(str_replace("+0000", "", $status->created_at)));
    $tweets[] = array('message' => $message, 'time' => $time);
  }
  return $tweets;
}

/**
 * Formats a timestamp nicely with an adaptive "x units of time ago" message.
 * Based on the original Twitter JavaScript badge. Only handles past dates.
 * @return string Nicely-formatted message for the timestamp.
 * @param $time Output of strtotime() on your choice of timestamp.
 */
function niceTime($time) {
  $delta = time() - $time;
  if ($delta < 60) {
    return 'less than a minute ago.';
  } else if ($delta < 120) {
    return 'about a minute ago.';
  } else if ($delta < (45 * 60)) {
    return floor($delta / 60) . ' minutes ago.';
  } else if ($delta < (90 * 60)) {
    return 'about an hour ago.';
  } else if ($delta < (24 * 60 * 60)) {
    return 'about ' . floor($delta / 3600) . ' hours ago.';
  } else if ($delta < (48 * 60 * 60)) {
    return '1 day ago.';
  } else {
    return floor($delta / 86400) . ' days ago.';
  }
}
?>