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13 Mar

Get Latest Tweet PHP Code

Just under the title heading of this blog is a line displaying my latest tweet, however it doesn’t quite do what I want. I got the code (displayed below) from Joost de Valk’s blog; it will convert mentions into links, but not hashtags and URL links – something I would really like it to do.

Sadly I don’t have enough knowledge of regular expressions, or PHP, to modify this code to add that functionality, so if you’re able to help I would greatly appreciate it!

?Download original.php
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< ?php
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');
$tweet   = get_option("lasttweet");
$url  = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/jamesbmarshall.json?count=20";
if ($tweet['lastcheck'] &lt; ( mktime() - 60 ) ) {
  $snoopy = new Snoopy;
  $result = $snoopy-&gt;fetch($url);
  if ($result) {
    $twitterdata   = json_decode($snoopy-&gt;results,true);
    $i = 0;
    while ($twitterdata[$i]['in_reply_to_user_id'] != '') {
      $i++;
    }
    $pattern  = '/@([a-zA-Z]+)/';
    $replace  = '<a href="http://twitter.com/'.strtolower('1').'">@1';
    $output   = preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$twitterdata[$i]["text"]);
 
    $tweet['lastcheck'] = mktime();
    $tweet['data']    = $output;
    $tweet['rawdata']  = $twitterdata;
    $tweet['followers'] = $twitterdata[0]['user']['followers_count'];
    update_option('lasttweet',$tweet);
  } else {
    echo "Twitter API not responding.";
  }
} else {
  $output = $tweet['data'];
}
echo "Latest Tweet: ".""".$output.""";
 
?>

Ideally, instead of just saying “Latest Tweet:” I’d kinda like that to be a link back to the tweet itself, too!

Update: This is the current version of the code. Thanks to Chris Alexander and Nick Telford it now links correctly, automatically converting mentions, hashtags and URLs into clickable links! :)

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< ?php
 
$username = "jamesbmarshall";
 
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');
$tweet   = get_option("lasttweet");
$url  = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" . $username . ".json?count=20";
if ($tweet['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() - 60 ) ) {
  $snoopy = new Snoopy;
  $result = $snoopy->fetch($url);
  if ($result) {
    $twitterdata   = json_decode($snoopy->results,true);
    $i = 0;
    while ($twitterdata[$i]['in_reply_to_user_id'] != '') {
      $i++;
    }
// Hashtag, URL and Username linking - added by Chris Alexander, chris@chris-alexander.co.uk
 
$output = $twitterdata[$i]['text'];
 
//Replace URLs
$output = preg_replace('@(https?://([-w.]+)+(:d+)?(/([w/_.]*(?S+)?)?)?)@i', '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $output);
 
//Replace @mentions
$output = preg_replace('/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/','$1<a href="http://twitter.com/$2" target="_blank">@$2</a>',$output);
 
//Replace #hashtags
$output = preg_replace('/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])#([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/',"$1<a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23$2" target="_blank">#$2</a>",$output);
 
$prefix = '<a href="http://twitter.com/' . $username . '/status/' . $twitterdata[$i]['id'] . '" target="_blank">Latest Tweet</a>: ';
 
$tweet['prefix'] = $prefix;
    $tweet['lastcheck'] = mktime();
    $tweet['data']    = $output;
    $tweet['rawdata']  = $twitterdata;
    $tweet['followers'] = $twitterdata[0]['user']['followers_count'];
    update_option('lasttweet',$tweet);
  } else {
    echo "Twitter API not responding.";
  }
} else {
  $output = $tweet['data'];
  $prefix = $tweet['prefix'];
}
echo $prefix . $output;
 
?>
By James | March 13th, 2010 | Blog | 5 Comments

5 Responses to “Get Latest Tweet PHP Code”

  1. Chris says:
    March 13, 2010 at 11:28

    This is completely untested but you may like to try this out

    <?php

    $username = "jamesbmarshall";

    require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');
    $tweet = get_option("lasttweet");
    $url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" . $username . ".json?count=20";
    if ($tweet['lastcheck'] fetch($url);
    if ($result) {
    $twitterdata = json_decode($snoopy->results,true);
    $i = 0;
    while ($twitterdata[$i]['in_reply_to_user_id'] != ”) {
    $i++;
    }

    // Hashtag, URL and Username linking – added by Chris Alexander
    $output = $twitterdata[$i]['text'];
    $output = preg_replace(‘/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/’,”$1@$2“,$output);
    $output = preg_replace(‘/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])#([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/’,”$1#$2“,$output);
    $output = preg_replace(‘@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@’, ‘$1‘, $output);

    $prefix = ‘Latest Tweet: ‘;

    $tweet['prefix'] = $prefix;
    $tweet['lastcheck'] = mktime();
    $tweet['data'] = $output;
    $tweet['rawdata'] = $twitterdata;
    $tweet['followers'] = $twitterdata[0]['user']['followers_count'];
    update_option(‘lasttweet’,$tweet);
    } else {
    echo “Twitter API not responding.”;
    }
    } else {
    $output = $tweet['data'];
    $prefix = $tweet['prefix'];
    }
    echo $prefix . $output;

    ?>

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  2. James says:
    March 13, 2010 at 13:21

    This is what I tried:

    < ?php

    $username = "jamesbmarshall";

    require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');
    $tweet = get_option("lasttweet");
    $url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/" . $username . ".json?count=20";
    if ($tweet['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() - 60 ) ) {
    $snoopy = new Snoopy;
    $result = $snoopy->fetch($url);
    if ($result) {
    $twitterdata = json_decode($snoopy->results,true);
    $i = 0;
    while ($twitterdata[$i]['in_reply_to_user_id'] != ”) {
    $i++;
    }

    // Hashtag, URL and Username linking – added by Chris Alexander
    $output = $twitterdata[$i]['text'];
    $output = preg_replace(‘/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/’,”$1@$2″, $output);
    $output = preg_replace(‘/([^a-zA-Z0-9-_&])#([0-9a-zA-Z_]+)/’,”$1#$2″, $output);
    $output = preg_replace(‘@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@’, ‘$1′, $output);

    $prefix = ‘Latest Tweet: ‘;

    $tweet['prefix'] = $prefix;
    $tweet['lastcheck'] = mktime();
    $tweet['data'] = $output;
    $tweet['rawdata'] = $twitterdata;
    $tweet['followers'] = $twitterdata[0]['user']['followers_count'];
    update_option(‘lasttweet’,$tweet);
    } else {
    echo “Twitter API not responding.”;
    }
    } else {
    $output = $tweet['data'];
    $prefix = $tweet['prefix'];
    }
    echo $prefix . $output;

    ?>

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  3. rosaleen says:
    April 21, 2010 at 14:45

    Hi there, do you now of a way to display your latest tweet with a specific hashtag? My blog is about a running, but my tweets can be just about anything. So I’m hoping to display my latest tweets that have the hashtag #running somewhere on my blog. I’ve tried a few plugins (which I prefer not to use anyway), but haven’t found anything yet that works yet.
    -Cheers

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  4. Paul says:
    May 19, 2011 at 13:06

    The code above does’t work?

    [Reply]

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