The Right Way To Display Your Twitter Status
I wanted to add my latest Twitter status to the header of my blog, and all the solutions I found we’re a pain in the ass.
Then I messaged @ketzusaka to fix an issue (my stupid fault)… And he laughed at me. The code I was using was, without HTML, at least 30 lines long and not reliable. In about 30 seconds, he send this little snippet over to me -
$tweets = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/bigrobby.xml")); echo ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","\\0", $tweets->status[0]->text);
Then I styled it up so it looks like this on my blog.
How To Add Twitter Status To Your Blog
- Download the Download the file (Twitter-Status.zip, 5k);
- Modify Edit your user info and icon info in the top of the file.
- Copy and paste wherever you want!
That’s it! Any questions, just leave a comment!
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Hippy Randall
