Hello folks,

One of the bloggers on my website recently started twitter-ing, and he's hysterical, so I'd like to figure out a way to post his twitter to a page on the website. Small problem: not all of his tweets are necessarily appropriate for the medium, so I'm trying to write code to generate a .txt file with his most recent 15 tweets for someone to sort through and post as would be appropriate.

I've borrowed and edited some code to pull the twitter via rss, and it works like a gem up until comment //FIDDLESTICKS!!

As far as I understand it, being a newbie, that the explode function creates an array... I'd like to figure out a way to write it to a file when the script is run.

Thanks SO much for your help!

Cheers!

<?php
/*
Template Name: Twitter
*/
?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php 

// Define username and how much to pull; cleanup output with listing

$username = "TWITTERUSER"; 
$limit = "15"; 
$prefix = "<ul>";
$suffix = "</ul>";
$pretweet = "<li>";
$posttweet = "</li>";

$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . " . $limit . ";

function parse_feed($feed, $prefix, $pretweet, $posttweet, $suffix) {

//Beautify.

$feed = str_replace("&lt;", "<", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("&amp;", "&", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("&quot;", "\"", $feed);

//Create a clean version of the code in html and overwrite the $feed string telling it to use cont... as the dynamite.
$clean = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);

//Establish the number of times the php should loop
$amount = count($clean) - 1;

echo $prefix;

//Looptastic magic

for ($i = 1; $i <= $amount; $i++) {


$cleaner = explode("</content>", $clean[$i]);
echo $pretweet;
echo $cleaner[0];
echo $posttweet;

}

echo $suffix;

}

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
//This is the part that seems to print out the results; it can't be saved as a string, which I tried in the next line...
parse_feed($twitterFeed, $prefix, $pretweet, $posttweet, $suffix);

/* FAILED: echo $filecontents or die("DARN!!"); */

// FIDDLESTICKS!!

/* $codex = "RecentTwitters.txt";
 
$codexhandle = fopen($codex, 'a') or die("Cannot perform up to standard. I need the attention of a webcoder.");

fwrite($codexhandle, $filecontents);

fclose($codexhandle);

echo "<br /> <br />D.V. 'Tis done."; */ ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I don't see $codex defined anywhere, which makes fopen fail.

$codex is defined 5th line from the bottom.

"$codex = RecentTwitters.txt"

Oh apparently I read like a compiler, I skip the comments. :P

The lines /* $codex = "RecentTwitters.txt"; to echo "<br /> <br />D.V. 'Tis done."; */ have been commented out, so they aren't evaluated.

Just remove the /* and */.

I commented them out because they don't work; i tried to make the "parse_feed" a string, but it didn't like it; the string was called "$filecontents" and it won't write tot he document.

You mean you tried:
$filecontents = parse_feed($twitterFeed, $prefix, $pretweet, $posttweet, $suffix);

If that didn't work, could you post the parse_feed function here?