How To Add Latest Twits To Your Sidebar

PHP — March 15, 2009 at 9:41

I’ve always wanted to show my last twits in my sidebar. I’ve recently found out how. Here’s a quick tutorial:

Place the following code in your sidebar. Remember to style it properly and replace the username:


<?php
// Your twitter username.
$username = "butterflymedia";
// Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet.
$prefix = "<h3>My last Tweet</h3>";
// Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the 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("&lt;", "<", $tweet);
    $tweet = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $tweet);
    return $tweet;
}
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>


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