How can I parse twitter hashtags with a certain word in?

[Stuart_Westgate]

At present I have wrote the code below to parse Twitter hashtags "#emotionalclothing".

 

What I really want to do is parse hashtags or status updates with any instance of the phase "emotionalclothing".

 

So say there's a word that reads "blahemotionalclothingblah" in a status update how could retrieve that status update just by searching for a regex with "emotionalclothing" in it?

 

Here's my code so far: Thanks Stuart

 

 

<?php

$pagetitle = "Pull Twitter Hashtags";

 

function getTweets($hash_tag) {

 

$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q='.urlencode($hash_tag) ;

echo "<p>Connecting to <strong>$url</strong> ...</p>";

$ch = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$xml = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

 

//If you want to see the response from Twitter, uncomment this next part out:

//echo "<p>Response:</p>";

//echo "<pre>".htmlspecialchars($xml)."</pre>";

 

$affected = 0;

$twelement = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);

foreach ($twelement->entry as $entry) {

$text = trim($entry->title);

$author = trim($entry->author->name);

$time = strtotime($entry->published);

$id = $entry->id;

echo "<p>Tweet from ".$author.": <strong>".$text."</strong> <em>Posted ".date('n/j/y g:i a',$time)."</em></p>";

}

 

return true ;

}

 

getTweets('#emotionalclothing');

 

?>

[Jessica]

Uhm. Remove the # from your search.

[Stuart_Westgate]

I really wish it was that simple lol. I've tryied that but can only get feeds back with just that phase e.g; "emotionalclothing.

 

However, if it a phase like this "jfjemotionalclothingjgfdhs"; it won't grab that for me! :-(

[Jessica]

Sounds like that's a limitation of twitter's API. 

[Stuart_Westgate]

I'm thinking the same thing Jess but their must be a way to look for certain words within a status other then this.

[Stuart_Westgate]

For anyone viewing this, there is a Twitter limitation to this. :-(