Comments on: Fetch twitter updates via PHP

By: Aman

Aman — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:11:36 +0000

@Maarten: You can use a counter to count 5 tweets for date notation Timo has written a good piece of code

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:25:43 +0000

I got it!
I edited the date-line (echo $tweet->pubDate.”\n”;) to be something like:
$d = explode(”-”, $date);
$t = explode(”:”, $time);
$pubdate = date(”r”, mktime((int)$t[0], (int)$t[1], (int)$t[2], (int)$d[1], (int)$d[2], (int)$d[0]));
echo date(”d.m.Y, H:i”, strtotime($tweet->pubDate)).”\n”;

Now I’ve only to make the @-links clickable (when you answer someone) and links in tweets. It hink, I’ll use preg_match

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:44:43 +0000

Hello Aman,
this is really a nice little script. Thank you!
Is there a way to display the date in an other format, like you can do with date() or strftime()?

By: Maarten

Maarten — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:34:20 +0000

I have a few questions:

How can I only display the latest 5 tweets?
How can I change the date notation?
How can I add an URL to the tweet?

And thanks for the great script!

By: Sea Squirt Genome

Sea Squirt Genome — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:09:01 +0000

hm.. thank you..

By: Twitter Search

Twitter Search — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:56:42 +0000

thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.

By: Lil aka XaosQueen

Lil aka XaosQueen — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:02:49 +0000

Hi there – GREAT little piece of code (can’t wait to try it!) .. is there a way to get the updates of EVERYONE you are following to be parsed and re-posted via your own website (for my own reading – Twitter is blocked here but I use it to get info for work so they are cutting off their nose to spite their faces!)Thanks so much! …

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:46:48 +0000

The reason you were getting that error is most likely because you have curly quotes – change all the double quotes to ’straight’ quotes

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By: James

James — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:22:59 +0000

Thank you for this!!! But I have a problem, i’m very limited in PHP skill, I get this error:

“Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /home/jamesca1/public_html/test.php on line 3″

Code for simple page with twitter output:

Twitter Test

channel->item as $tweet)
{
echo $tweet->pubDate.”\n”;
echo substr($tweet->description,10).”\n\n”;
}
}
else
{
echo “Error: RSS file not valid!”;
}
}
else
{
echo “Error: RSS file not found, dude. Username invalid or requires authentication”;
}
?>

What am I doing wrong?