get_twitter_status

get_twitter_status.php

<?php
        function get_twitter_status ($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = true)
	{
	    $c = curl_init ();
	    curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml?count=1");
	    curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	    $src = curl_exec ($c);
	    curl_close ($c);
	    preg_match ('/<text>(.*)<\/text>/', $src, $m);
	    $status = htmlentities ($m[1]);
		
	    if( $hyperlinks )
		{
			// The Regular Expression filter
			$reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
			
			// Check if there is a url in the text
			if (preg_match ($reg_exUrl, $status, $url))
			{
			
			       // make the urls hyper links
			       $status = preg_replace ($reg_exUrl, "<a href=\"{$url[0]}\">{$url[0]}</a> ", $status);
			
			}
			//$status = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]", '<a href="%5C%22%5C%5C0%5C%22">\\0</a>', $status);
		}
	    return $status;
	}
?>