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Hi there. We are now setup as 'Developers' with Tokens and API to get 'number of followers' from handles on Twitter. Trouble is, there is no definite guide on the best way to do it. ie. a chunk of code, where you add your Token and API, enter the @handle, and use PHP to extract the number. Does anyone know the best means of doing it? I've looked at Twitter's Auth code but there are oodles of code there, and no definitive answer.

$hashtags = strip_tags($row->uniquehashtag); $array = explode(' ', $hashtags); foreach ($array as $tag) { echo "<span class='gig-hashtags'>$tag</span>"; } Spot on - removes the <p> tag in the code too! Plus anything else they might have added. Thanks everyone.

Ooo I like that method too.

Answered my own question.... //space is used as delimiter $parts=explode(' ', $row->uniquehashtag); echo count($parts); echo $parts[0] . '<br/>'; echo $parts[1] . '<br/>'; echo $parts[2]; 'count' shows how many there are, then I can put those [0] arrays into a loop by the amount of count.

I have the content in, let's say $hastags. I want to split that content so it starts at the #, and ends at the space. I'm asking of the best way to do this - it might not be explode(). Trouble is, when I have seen that used, it's usually numbered, and if you don't know how many there will be, how do you know how many arrays to look at? <?php $mystr='I like Programming'; //space is used as delimiter $parts=explode(' ', $mystr); echo $parts[0] . '<br/>'; echo $parts[1] . '<br/>'; echo $parts[2]; ?> Here is an example. But what if there are 15 terms in here to be split up. How do you manage that, dynamically? One might have 15, one might have just 2. I can of course easily put them into variables, and the answer might be as a 'count'.

That is what I am asking here. I don't even know of explode() is the right method. All I know is that I need to split them up, to show each one in an individual DIV, but they are entered in a text box.

I have this as a result of a form that has been completed. It might be twice that, it might be much much more. But what I want to do is render it on a page inside Divs. So each one is in a kind of shaded box. The CSS side of it is easy, but how do I extract each one of these into a variable useful means to surround each one by <div>$variable</div>? I thought it might be "explode", but you appear to have to state the [3] number of the variable to show. In this case, it's totally random. We won't be using these as Variables to trigger anything else, it's purely "for display" purposes.

I see. Twitter have accepted us as Developers, so we can at least try that now!

Gotcha. I've setup a Developer account and just waiting for approval now. What about Facebook and Instagram. Do they have similar methods?

function twitter_user_info($screen_name){ $data = file_get_contents("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=" . $screen_name); $data = json_decode($data, true); //echo $data; return $data[0]; } $twitter = twitter_user_info("test_user"); echo "Followers count: " . $twitter['followers_count']; I read that this should work, when you replace "test_user" with the handler, but it doesn't. Anyone got an ideas please?

I love 'grid'!! My only concern is that isn't responsive. ie. you have to state auto auto auto for three columns. But when the screen goes smaller, it sticks to that, rather than wrapping. Is there a means to make it wrap, else were are going to get horiz scrolls when it goes off the page. UPDATE: Correction, it was creating scrolls as the tile had a width assigned to it! It works great.

Sorry I've no idea what you mean. When I looked up Flex Divs, I read that they just wrap. And if you set a margin right of Auto, the spacing is automatically set - but this could be the cause of the problem. When it is not a "full row", it finds it impossible to add the right amount of margin. But I don't know what the fix is.

Here's what I am asking............. The Flex expands it all nicely. the first row the second row....... any row that is 'full', it expands lovely. But get to the final row that is not full, and it doesn't. I don't know the reason for that. Perhaps your after CSS is pushing it HARD up against it all. Not sure. That additional but you just added makes no difference. Sorry.

I have an update for you. .admin-influencers-tile-container { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; width: 100%; } # not sure what this 'after' part is... .admin-influencers-tile-container::after{ content: ' '; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex-grow: 1; flex-shrink: 1; } # this is each tile for the bigger container we have .admin-influencers-tile { position: relative; margin-top: 30px; margin-right: auto; padding: 10px 10px 10px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.13); } # this is the smaller boxes we are looking at here. .admin-influencers-tile.small { margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.13); width: 120px; position: relative; } I've added comments to the CSS. In addition, the line in .admin-influencers-tile for "margin-right: auto;" just adds a margin to the right of all the tiles, but we don't set it. When it goes to the next line, it seems not to use that margin now, with that "after" CSS code. Why might that be?

All we need to do, is assign the username the person has entered onto our website database, and compare that with Twitter - access their "amount of followers", and then update OUR system to that effect. Same for the other SM platforms too.

.admin-influencers-tile-container { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; width: 100%; } .admin-influencers-tile-container::after{ content: ' '; display: flex; flex-direction: row; flex-grow: 1; flex-shrink: 1; } .admin-influencers-tile { position: relative; margin-top: 30px; margin-right: auto; padding: 10px 10px 10px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.13); } .admin-influencers-tile.small { margin-top: 10px; padding: 5px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.13); width: 120px; position: relative; } This is the CSS at the moment. I cannot get the spacing to be added. Not sure why.

Not really. We use Chrome. Or Safari. I'll check the padding, as it must be in ther esomewhere.

Ooo almost, that shoves them up against each other, but with no spacing.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-followers-list This is getting close to it....

Goodness me... where does one start..............

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Sure - how do we find out how to get those, and how to query them, so our DB gets updated dynamically?

We are building a site for users to post articles on certain topics and we want to show their number of followers on various social media platforms. Apart from them having the means to add it manually, there must be a method of syncing with their account, that they punch in, so that it dynamically updates our database with their number of followers. How is it done?

Hi there We had Google Cloud Hosting setup by someone, but we are trying to find out the date it was setup, to see if there is any difference in performance before and after Google Hosting. We are also trying to find out how much it would have cost if it wasn't on the free trial. We went on their livechat, but their support was utterly hopefully. And I mean hopeless. I don't see to be able to find a Support Forum for Google Hosting, so wondered if anyone here can please guide me? Thanks Simon

Thanks a lot everyone. Really appreciate it. The forum is great. I use to use another one years ago, but i dont' think it's covered anymore, and some others are very prickly. This one is helpful and quick. Cheers all.