Comments on: How to Get Your Most Recent Twitter Posts Using PHP with Caching http://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=twitter-php-caching CSS ninja, last of the freelance hackers, greatest swordfighter in the world Tue, 08 May 2012 17:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Pete Leonardhttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-215006 Pete Leonard Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:44:51 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-215006 Not very elegant but you can use this code straight after the for loop to get the link address of the status. $clean_link_1 = explode(":", $clean[$i]); $linklen = strlen($clean_link_1[2]); $id = substr($clean_link_1[2], 0, ($linklen - 13)); $id = str_replace("", "", $id); $link = "http://twitter.com/#!/$username_for_feed/statuses/$id"; Not very elegant but you can use this code straight after the for loop to get the link address of the status.

$clean_link_1 = explode(“:”, $clean[$i]);
$linklen = strlen($clean_link_1[2]);
$id = substr($clean_link_1[2], 0, ($linklen – 13));
$id = str_replace(“”, “”, $id);
$link = “http://twitter.com/#!/$username_for_feed/statuses/$id”;

]]> By: Lukehttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-212087 Luke Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:58:59 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-212087 I've been trying for hours to get the profile image url from the href with no luck. Any ideas on how to grab that? I’ve been trying for hours to get the profile image url from the href with no luck. Any ideas on how to grab that?

]]> By: Davehttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-204788 Dave Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:59:54 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-204788 good catch - found the same thing myself. Just to clarify - this is an *important* fix to pass W3C XHTML strict validation. Not fixing it leaves a small script call in hashtag links mangled with improper quoting. good catch – found the same thing myself. Just to clarify – this is an *important* fix to pass W3C XHTML strict validation. Not fixing it leaves a small script call in hashtag links mangled with improper quoting.

]]> By: Sisirhttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-172621 Sisir Sun, 01 May 2011 10:50:37 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-172621 Hi, i am getting problem. The scripts is loading only 3 tweets in my case. But i put the limit to 10. Please help. Thanks! Hi, i am getting problem. The scripts is loading only 3 tweets in my case. But i put the limit to 10. Please help. Thanks!

]]> By: James Hobsonhttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-172616 James Hobson Sun, 01 May 2011 10:42:40 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-172616 Hi, I've found a validation issue with links within tweets due to lack of quotation marks. the line: [php]$clean = str_replace(""", "'", $clean);[/php] needs to be replaced with: [php]$clean = str_replace(""", "\"", $clean);[/php] Cheers, James Hi, I’ve found a validation issue with links within tweets due to lack of quotation marks.
the line:

$clean = str_replace(""", "'", $clean);

needs to be replaced with:

$clean = str_replace(""", "\"", $clean);

Cheers,
James

]]> By: Sisirhttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-171340 Sisir Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:55:00 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-171340 [php]$delta = strtotime('+2 hours') - $time;[/php] Shifts the time 2 hours. Also it only loading 3 tweets but i set the limit to 10. $delta = strtotime('+2 hours') - $time;

Shifts the time 2 hours.

Also it only loading 3 tweets but i set the limit to 10.

]]> By: redflamehttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-162531 redflame Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:44:51 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-162531 this is awesome! thank you! quick question is there anyway to link the time to the actual twitter post? i see the post referenced within the id tag - it just needs to get appended to the following: http://twitter.com/username/statuses/$id thanks for any help this is awesome! thank you!

quick question is there anyway to link the time to the actual twitter post?

i see the post referenced within the id tag – it just needs to get appended to the following:

http://twitter.com/username/statuses/$id

thanks for any help

]]> By: James Hobsonhttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-159773 James Hobson Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:35:24 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-159773 Many thanks for the script. I was having 'could not connect to twitter' 9 times out of 10 (or so it seemed) with Twitter Widget Pro for WordPress and an unhappy client. Found your script and implemented it. Was only when I created a 'cache' folder did it start to work properly. Great work. Many thanks for the script. I was having ‘could not connect to twitter’ 9 times out of 10 (or so it seemed) with Twitter Widget Pro for WordPress and an unhappy client.
Found your script and implemented it.
Was only when I created a ‘cache’ folder did it start to work properly.
Great work.

]]> By: Johnhttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-133238 John Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:29:44 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-133238 Hi Scott, Thank you for that - I didn't intend for you to spend any time on it! One thing I had noticed (and will be exploring next) is that all of the @reply tweets start with: <code><a href="http://twitter.com/...</code> So it's probably possible to do a string-match against the first few characters of the returned tweets and discard any that match that pattern. It does fall foul of a couple of fringe cases though: 1) It relies on Twitter not changing the format of their feed 2) It also means that should you start a Tweet with a link within the Twitter domain (eg: if you linked to the 'new Twitter' page here http://twitter.com/newtwitter), AND you didn't use a URL shortening service, AND it was the very first characters in your tweet, it would also get discarded. All limitations I reckon I could live with! I'm going to ask a friend of mine who's far more into his PHP than I am to have a look, maybe it will be possible to get rid of @replies just by detecting the first few characters.. Hi Scott,

Thank you for that – I didn’t intend for you to spend any time on it!

One thing I had noticed (and will be exploring next) is that all of the @reply tweets start with:

<a href="http://twitter.com/...

So it’s probably possible to do a string-match against the first few characters of the returned tweets and discard any that match that pattern.

It does fall foul of a couple of fringe cases though:

1) It relies on Twitter not changing the format of their feed

2) It also means that should you start a Tweet with a link within the Twitter domain (eg: if you linked to the ‘new Twitter’ page here http://twitter.com/newtwitter), AND you didn’t use a URL shortening service, AND it was the very first characters in your tweet, it would also get discarded.

All limitations I reckon I could live with!

I’m going to ask a friend of mine who’s far more into his PHP than I am to have a look, maybe it will be possible to get rid of @replies just by detecting the first few characters..

]]> By: Scotthttp://spaceninja.com/2009/07/twitter-php-caching/#comment-133120 Scott Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:01:51 +0000 http://spaceninja.com/?p=3993#comment-133120 John, I spent a few hours this evening going over the <a href="http://dev.twitter.com/doc/" rel="nofollow">Twitter API docs</a> hoping to find a way to exclude @replies, but there's simply no way to do it through any of the Twitter APIs yet. I did find <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/619773/filter-out-replies-in-a-twitter-feed" rel="nofollow">a post on stackoverflow</a> explaining how to accomplish this using javascript and the stock Twitter badge, but that doesn't really help for our PHP script. My programmer buddy is going to help me add this to the next version of the script, but since we'll be filtering out @replies after the fact, there's a chance that you'll end up with less tweets than you were expecting (even none!)... unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there's no magic bullet. John, I spent a few hours this evening going over the Twitter API docs hoping to find a way to exclude @replies, but there’s simply no way to do it through any of the Twitter APIs yet.

I did find a post on stackoverflow explaining how to accomplish this using javascript and the stock Twitter badge, but that doesn’t really help for our PHP script.

My programmer buddy is going to help me add this to the next version of the script, but since we’ll be filtering out @replies after the fact, there’s a chance that you’ll end up with less tweets than you were expecting (even none!)… unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there’s no magic bullet.

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