Getting your latest twitter status using PHP

Twitter is a social netwoking phenomenon. It attracts millions of visitors everyday and it can lead to a website’s popularity. Having your twitter status on your website would be beneficial; your visitors can see your status without actually going to Twitter, which is good for people who are too lazy to open links

We’re loading the xml file from Twitter and then echoing the text using getTwitterStatus

function getTwitterStatus($userid){
$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$userid.xml?count=1";

$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("could not connect");

       foreach($xml->status as $status){
       $text = $status->text;
       }
       echo $text;
 }

getTwitterStatus("insert.twitter.username.here");

/*Put your twitter ID above in the brackets*/

Hope this helps!

Arjun
http://www.avn8.com

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13 Responses to “Getting your latest twitter status using PHP”

1. @trudesign says:

   May 6, 2010 at 8:32 pm

   In your code block you are missing the first and last would make it hard to use lol…are there other parts in this that should be too?
2. @trudesign says:

   May 6, 2010 at 8:35 pm

   You should also include more where and how you can add this. Also how to put it into a WP layout.
3. Lam Nguyen says:

   May 6, 2010 at 9:51 pm

   You will kill your hosting CPU usage if you get over 5k visitors a day, dude! Try to put it in the cache to reduce loadtime or just using javascript
4. Nicholas Camp says:

   May 7, 2010 at 1:09 pm

   Only what I need. Thanks!
5. Codephase says:

   May 7, 2010 at 3:14 pm

   wow! thanks for sharing!
6. wawa says:

   May 7, 2010 at 3:17 pm

   In getTwitterStatus (), did you try with that ?
   echo $xml->status->text;
7. Codephase says:

   May 7, 2010 at 3:18 pm

   just a stupid question: if I want to show older tweets, I just alter the “count” attribute?
8. forex advice says:

   July 8, 2010 at 6:53 am

   Excellent job.
9. Nicholas Camp says:

   July 18, 2010 at 3:14 am

   Hey, this is nice!
   But I make some modifications in the function, and I think others should appreciate.
   Here are they:

   function getTwitterStatus($userid){
   $url = “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$userid.xml?count=1″;
   $xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die(“could not connect”); //no news above
   $text = utf8_decode($xml->status->text); //you need just this for your last tweet. utf8_decode is for latin characters
   $text = ereg_replace(“[[:alpha:]]+://[^[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]”, “\“, $text); //To make links inside anchors
   echo $text;
   }
   getTwitterStatus(“yourtwitterhere”);

   It’s only that, thank you very much for your code!
10. Nicholas Camp says:

    July 18, 2010 at 3:15 am

    I made*. Sorry about my english.
11. Nicholas Camp says:

    July 18, 2010 at 3:18 am

    I wrote the ereg_replace wrong
    here’s the right:
    $text = ereg_replace(“[[:alpha:]]+://[^[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]”, “\“, $text);

    Sorry about the mistake.
12. Nicholas Camp says:

    July 18, 2010 at 3:22 am

    No… the comment system seems to not accept the entire code… de ereg_replace still wrong.
13. Nicholas Camp says:

    July 20, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    Hey, you can see that if your last tweet is a retweet, this code don’t work. To fix that, I made this do while estructure:
    
$i = 1; do { $url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$userid.xml?count=$i"; $i++; $xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die("could not connect"); $text = utf8_decode($xml->status->text);
} while (empty($text));


    I hope this help someone!