[SOLVED] How can I dispaly twitter searches as a feed with php? Can I convert to xml?

[kiowa_jackson]

I use rsslib http://www.2rss.com/software.php to display rss feeds in my site. I’d like to display a twitter feed on my page, but it doesn’t seem to work. However, I used rss mixer http://www.rssmix.com/ to convert the twitter feed to xml and then it worked properly. However, the site runs veeery slow like this, and now I can't get rssmixer to work and therefore all my feeds are broken. Is there a way to convert the twitter feed to xml? Or is there a different script to use for displaying twitter feeds?

 

Thanks

[dzelenika]

I use rsslib http://www.2rss.com/software.php to display rss feeds in my site. I’d like to display a twitter feed on my page, but it doesn’t seem to work. However, I used rss mixer http://www.rssmix.com/ to convert the twitter feed to xml and then it worked properly. However, the site runs veeery slow like this, and now I can't get rssmixer to work and therefore all my feeds are broken. Is there a way to convert the twitter feed to xml? Or is there a different script to use for displaying twitter feeds?

 

Thanks

 

You don't need to convert RSS feed to XML. RSS Feed is XLS try to see source of feed in browser.

[kiowa_jackson]

OK, my problem is that the feed http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed won't display with rsslib. How do I get that feed to display in a webpage?

 

Thanks

[dzelenika]

this is example how to fetch data from xml.

(title of first entry)

 

$xmlStr = file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed');
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
echo $rss->entry[0]->title;

[kiowa_jackson]

dzelenika,

 

awesome, thanks so much!! That's a very easy script to use too. Is there way to make it display multiple entries? I tried doing

 

$xmlStr = file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed');
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
echo $rss->entry[0]->title;

$xmlStr = file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed');
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
echo $rss->entry[1]->title;

$xmlStr = file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed');
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
echo $rss->entry[2]->title;

 

i.e. enter the script multiple times and increase "entry" by 1. It works, but is that a good way to do it or is there a better way? Thanks again

[kiowa_jackson]

Started doing it like this now, pretty happy with it. Unless there's some obvious way to make it better I'll go with this:

 

<?php
$xmlStr = file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed');
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
echo "<p>";
echo $rss->entry[0]->title;
echo "<p>";
echo $rss->entry[1]->title;
echo "<p>";
echo $rss->entry[2]->title;
echo "<p>";
echo $rss->entry[3]->title;
echo "<p>";
echo $rss->entry[4]->title;
?>
</p>

[dzelenika]

you should use a loop

<?php

$xmlStr = file_get_contents('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter+feed');
$rss = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlStr);
for($i=0;$i<5;$i++){
echo "<p>";
echo $rss->entry[$i]->title;
echo "<p>";

}
?>
</p>

 

[kiowa_jackson]

Thanks!! Works great