Simple Twitter RSS Processing
I required a simple feed from Twitter into www.MindOver-matter.co.uk/news.php. There are numerous examples around but a lot of them are very convoluted. Below is an simple code example. The function could of course be modifed to be generic whereby user info etc would be passed in.
<?php
function parse_cache_feed($usernames, $limit) {
$feed = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/130211322.rss";
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents($feed));
if (count($xml->channel->item) == 0) {
?>
<p class="tweet">
Sorry but failed to connect to Twitter for latest updates,
it is probably busy so try again later.
Or look <a href="http://www.twitter.com/MindOverMatter8">here</a>
</p>
<?php
} else {
foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
?>
<div class="calendar">
<div class="calendar-month">
<?php echo date("M",strtotime($item->pubDate)) ?>
</div>
<div class="calendar-day">
<?php echo date("d",strtotime($item->pubDate)) ?>
</div>
</div>
<p>
<?php echo str_replace("MindOverMatter8:","",$item->description); ?>
</p>
<?php
}
}
}
?>
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