Twitter API issues

[andrew_biggart]

Hi, I have got a problem with pulling tweets from twitter. It is currently working to an extent but I'm trying to do a str_replace so that I can convert characters like "&lt" into "<" etc. But at the moment it is still displaying the "&lt" instead of "<" what am I doing wrong?

 

I am using the following code to fetch and display my tweets.

 

                    <?php
					$username = "la__academia";
					$limit = "2"; // Number of tweets to pull in.

					/* These prefixes and suffixes will display before and after the entire block of tweets. */
					$prefix = "<a href='http://www.twitter.com/la__academia' class='twitter-link'>La Academia Tweets</a>"; // Prefix - some text you want displayed before all your tweets.
					$suffix = ""; // Suffix - some text you want displayed after all your tweets.
					$tweetprefix = "<p>"; // Prefix - some text you want displayed before each tweet.
					$tweetsuffix = "</p><span class='tweet-sep'></span>"; // Suffix - some text you want displayed after each tweet.

					$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=" . $limit;

					function parse_feed($feed, $prefix, $tweetprefix, $tweetsuffix, $suffix) {

					$feed = str_replace ("<", "<", $feed);
					$feed = str_replace (">", ">", $feed);
					$feed = str_replace (""", "\"", $feed);
					$feed = str_replace ("'", "'", $feed);
					$clean = explode ("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);

					$amount = count($clean) - 1;

					echo $prefix;

					for ($i = 1; $i <= $amount; $i++) {
					$cleaner = explode("</content>", $clean[$i]);
					echo $tweetprefix;
					echo $cleaner[0];
					echo $tweetsuffix;
					}

					echo $suffix;
					}

					$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
					parse_feed($twitterFeed, $prefix, $tweetprefix, $tweetsuffix, $suffix);
				?>

 

I would also like to know how to get the and display the time etc for the tweet.

 

Thanks Andrew

 

[andrew_biggart]

Ok never mind that last post I have solved all of the I've issues by doing everything a different way. If you are interested I will post the working code below.

 

                    <?php

					$username = "la__academia";
					$limit = "2";
					$twitter_url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$username.xml?count=$limit";

					$buffer = file_get_contents($twitter_url);
					$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer);

					$status_item = $xml -> status;
					$user_item = $xml -> status -> user;
					$description =  $status_item -> text;
					$status_time =  $status_item -> created_at;
					$status_img = $user_item -> profile_image_url;

					$description = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t< ]*)#", "\\1<a href=\"\\2\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $description);
				        $description = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r< ]*)#", "\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\" target=\"_blank\">\\2</a>", $description);
				        $description = preg_replace("/@(\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\1\" target=\"_blank\">@\\1</a>", $description);
				        $description = preg_replace("/#(\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23\\1\" target=\"_blank\">#\\1</a>", $description);

					$date =  strtotime($status_item -> created_at);
					$dayMonth = date('d M', $date);
					$year = date('y', $date);
					$message = $row['content'];
					$datediff = date_diff($theDate, $date);


					echo "<p><img src='$status_img' alt='profile pic' /> $status_time<br /> $description</p>";

				?>

 

What I would like to do is add a while loop to this code now so that I can get as many tweets as is set in the $limit variable. At the minute the minute it is only displaying 1 tweet at a time.

Thanks in advance.

 

[andrew_biggart]

You can ignore this as I havn't included the function.

 

$date =  strtotime($status_item -> created_at);
					$dayMonth = date('d M', $date);
					$year = date('y', $date);
					$message = $row['content'];
					$datediff = date_diff($theDate, $date);