Display Latest Tweets Function - uses curl to fetch json timeline

display-latest-twitter-tweets.php

// replace $username= with correct username

function rb_latest_tweet($username = 'rachelbaker', $include_date = true){
	$twitter_feed_url = "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=0&screen_name=$username&count=3"; // will show 3 most recent tweets, can change value if needed  // 
				
		$ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $twitter_feed_url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
            $alltweets = curl_exec($ch);
            $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
            curl_close($ch); 
 			
			
        /* Use the tweet ID from XML to retrieve an HTML page with the tweet */
        try {
               $outputs = json_decode($alltweets);
			   
        /* Twitter #failwhale */
        } catch (Exception $e) {
                return '<div id="tweet">@<a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/' . $username . '" target="_blank">' . $username . '</a>: <em>No tweet retrieved.</em>r</div>';
        }
        if(is_array($outputs)){
		foreach($outputs as $output){
			$url = $output->entities->urls[0]->url;
			$text = $output->text;
			$text = str_replace($url, ' ', $text);
 			$d_url = $output->entities->urls[0]->display_url;
			$date = $output->created_at;
			$date =  ( date("g:i A", strtotime($date))." ".date("M jS",strtotime($date)) );
			
			echo '<div class="feed-item">
        	<p class="feed">@<a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/' . $username . '" target="_blank">' . $username . ':</a> '.$text.'<a target="_blank" href="'.$url.'">'.$url.'</a></p>
			<p class="meta">'.$date.'</p>
        	</div>';
			
			}
		}
	}