Here’s a simple PHP snippet that I’m sure some of you might find pretty handy: it’s a Twitter feed reader! Copy the code below and simply replace all the necessary info with the proper Twitter user handle, run it, and then let it do its magic. The reader takes a username, load the user’s feed, and display it on a page.

Twitter.php

<?php 
class Twitter{ 
 protected $twitURL = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/'; 
 protected $xml; 
 protected $tweets  = array(), $twitterArr = array(); 
 protected $pversion = "1.0.0"; 
 public function pversion(){ 
 return $this->pversion; 
 } 
 public function loadTimeline($user, $max = 20){ 
 $this->twitURL .= 'statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name='.$user.'&count='.$max; 
 $ch        = curl_init(); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->twitURL); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
 $this->xml = curl_exec($ch); 
 return $this; 
 } 
 public function getTweets(){ 
 $this->twitterArr = $this->getTimelineArray(); 
 $tweets = array(); 
 foreach($this->twitterArr->status as $status){ 
 $tweets[$status->created_at->__toString()] = $status->text->__toString(); 
 } 
 return $tweets; 
 } 
 public function getTimelineArray(){ 
 return simplexml_load_string($this->xml); 
 } 
 public function formatTweet($tweet){ 
 $tweet = preg_replace("/(http(.+?))( |$)/","<a href=\"$0\">$1</a>$3", $tweet); 
 $tweet = preg_replace("/#(.+?)(\h|\W|$)/", "<a href=\"https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/?q=%23$1&src=hash\">#$1</a>$2", $tweet); 
 $tweet = preg_replace("/@(.+?)(\h|\W|$)/", "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/$1\">@$1</a>$2", $tweet); 
 return $tweet; 
 } 
}     

example.php

<?php 
$twitter = new Twitter(); 
$feed = $twitter->loadTimeline("phpsnips")->getTweets(); 
foreach($feed as $time => $message){ 
 echo "<div class='tweet'>".$twitter->formatTweet($message)."<br />At: ".$time."</div>"; 
}

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