Simple php twitter script

[peoy]

If you look at the botton of http://getminecraft.net/ you see my latest tweets. The problem is that it shows http://getminecraft.net/%22http://twitter.com/PC_Gamer%22 instead of the original twitter url, that results to a wrong url and wrong site. How can I fix it? so it shows the original twitter url. Here is the script:

 

<?php

$username = "getminecraft";

$prefix = "";

$suffix = "";

$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1";

function parse_feed($feed) {

$stepOne = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
$stepTwo = explode("</content>", $stepOne[1]);

$tweet = $stepTwo[0];
$tweet = str_replace("<", "<", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(">", ">", $tweet);

return $tweet;

}

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);

echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);

?>

[denno020]

Add a space in your echo line. Like this perhaps:

echo stripslashes($prefix) . " " . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . " " . stripslashes($suffix);

 

That will hopefully break up the link and the text before it, which means the text before it won't also be assigned the hyperlink...

 

Denno

[peoy]

Thank you very much, but that did not change anything 

 

Add a space in your echo line. Like this perhaps:

echo stripslashes($prefix) . " " . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . " " . stripslashes($suffix);

 

That will hopefully break up the link and the text before it, which means the text before it won't also be assigned the hyperlink...

 

Denno

[denno020]

Can you please tell me which parts of the twitter feed correspond to the 3 parts of the echo?

 

Denno

[peoy]

Im not sure actually, since I got this script from a site, since I wasnt sure how to write a simple twitter script.

 

Thanks.

 

Can you please tell me which parts of the twitter feed correspond to the 3 parts of the echo?

 

Denno

[denno020]

Well then change the script to only echo one thing at a time.. Or instead of adding the space between each element, add a separator as such:

echo stripslashes($prefix) . " | " . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . " | " . stripslashes($suffix);

 

Then you will clearly see which part belongs to what. Infact, are you able to do that and then upload it to your site so I may see as well?

 

Denno

[peoy]

I have added | now. As you can see, I dont think they are part of the url. thanks

 

Im not sure actually, since I got this script from a site, since I wasnt sure how to write a simple twitter script.

 

Thanks.

 

Can you please tell me which parts of the twitter feed correspond to the 3 parts of the echo?

 

Denno

[denno020]

Alright so now we know that the link is being printed using

parse_feed($twitterFeed)

 

Can you also add the extra line you see below:

$tweet = str_replace("<", "<", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(">", ">", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(""",""", $tweet); //you may nee to add a backslash before the double quote that's inbetween double quotes (the middle argument)

 

Denno

[peoy]

awesome! it is working very nice! want any credits? Also, if you do a codeclean up on that pure HTML site kit on that site, can add your site url and nick to that site kit  have many uniqe visitors 

Alright so now we know that the link is being printed using

parse_feed($twitterFeed)

 

Can you also add the extra line you see below:

$tweet = str_replace("<", "<", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(">", ">", $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(""",""", $tweet); //you may nee to add a backslash before the double quote that's inbetween double quotes (the middle argument)

 

Denno

[denno020]

awesome! it is working very nice! want any credits? Also, if you do a codeclean up on that pure HTML site kit on that site, can add your site url and nick to that site kit  have many uniqe visitors 

 

Absolutely no idea what you're talking about there mate....

 

Denno

[peoy]

If you go to that site. there is a fan site kit in a html file, if you do a html clean up so it gets valid html.. I can credit you on that site kit thing.. you'll just have to take a look, if you dont understand: thank you anyways! love and hugs!

awesome! it is working very nice! want any credits? Also, if you do a codeclean up on that pure HTML site kit on that site, can add your site url and nick to that site kit  have many uniqe visitors 

 

Absolutely no idea what you're talking about there mate....

 

Denno

[denno020]

Oh right. I'm happy to help you with problems, I'm not going to spend time cleaning your code though to make it look nice, that's something you need to do .

 

One suggestion though, if you want people to stay on your site, then you should make your external links open in a new window. You should also let people know that the links are to external sites, as I thought it was a navigation bar, which it isn't really..

 

Denno

[peoy]

Hehe thanks.. added target="_blank" now.. gonna find out a clever way to inform people about those extarnal links tomorrw!

 

Oh right. I'm happy to help you with problems, I'm not going to spend time cleaning your code though to make it look nice, that's something you need to do .

 

One suggestion though, if you want people to stay on your site, then you should make your external links open in a new window. You should also let people know that the links are to external sites, as I thought it was a navigation bar, which it isn't really..

 

Denno

[peoy]

Go have a lookie now.. a quick fix 

[denno020]

Don't make External URLs: look like a button. All you need to have is some text along the topline of the bar saying something like "Check out these sites:".

Something along those lines.

But it's your site, so make it how you like it .

 

Denno

[peoy]

okei:) thanks! gonna fix that

[peoy]

I have now re-designed the whole page! even more simple! maybe I will make the links look pretty one day!