Twitter feed reader

Take a user name, and load the user feed to display on a page.

 

 

<?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;
    }
}

 

//Usage Example


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

 ?>