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nerdsane on 03/01/09


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Get Your Most Recent Twitter Status Using PHP

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To find your numerical Twitter ID, login to Twitter and click on your RSS feed (bottom of the page). The URL will look something like http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/12345678.rss. Your ID will be the 12345678.

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  1. <?php
  2. function get_status($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = true) {
  3.     $c = curl_init();
  4.     curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml?count=1");
  5.     curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  6.     $src = curl_exec($c);
  7.     curl_close($c);
  8.     preg_match('/<text>(.*)<\/text>/', $src, $m);
  9.     $status = htmlentities($m[1]);
  10.     if( $hyperlinks ) $status = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]", "<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>", $status);
  11.     return($status);
  12. }
  13. ?>

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