Does anybody have any recommendations for PHP scripts to pull in a Twitter feed? I've tried several but each seem to just give me error messages!

I basically just need a PHP alternative so that the tweets can be read by search engines.

Thanks.

Actually this one seems to work quite well:

PHP Code:

<?php
    $username = "username";
    $limit = 5;
    $feed = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name='.$username.'&count='.$limit;
    $tweets = file_get_contents($feed);        
        $tweets = str_replace("&", "&", $tweets);    
        $tweets = str_replace("<", "<", $tweets);
        $tweets = str_replace(">", ">", $tweets);
        $tweet = explode("<item>", $tweets);
    $tcount = count($tweet) - 1;

for ($i = 1; $i <= $tcount; $i++) {
    $endtweet = explode("</item>", $tweet[$i]);
    $title = explode("<title>", $endtweet[0]);
    $content = explode("</title>", $title[1]);
        $content[0] = str_replace("–", "&mdash;", $content[0]);
        $content[0] = preg_replace("/(http:\/\/|(www\.))(([^\s<]{4,68})[^\s<]*)/", '<a href="http://$2$3" target="_blank">$1$2$4</a>', $content[0]);
        $content[0] = str_replace("$username: ", "", $content[0]);
        $content[0] = preg_replace("/@(\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\1\" target=\"_blank\">@\\1</a>", $content[0]);
        $content[0] = preg_replace("/#(\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=\\1\" target=\"_blank\">#\\1</a>", $content[0]);
    $mytweets[] = $content[0];
}

while (list(, $v) = each($mytweets)) {
    $tweetout .= "<li>$v</li>";
}
?>

Only thing is, it doesn't output the date of the Tweets. I can see it is contained within the XML inside the '<pubdate>' elements, which are inside the '<item>' elements. But I cannot figure out how to retrieve it without messing up the for loop!

One thing that does confuse me is that the script looks for '<title>' elements, but when I set the script to pull in my tweets, there appears to be no XML element called '<title>' in there anywhere

Does anybody have any ideas?

This can be done with javascript:

http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/

I thinks search engine bots will not ready the above code.

title is set by the php: $title = explode("", $endtweet[0]);

none as simple as twitters

And that just about sums it up!!

You can use this code as it works for me:

PHP Code:

<?php

// Your twitter username.
$username = "TwitterUsername";

// Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet. 
// (HTML is OK, but be sure to escape quotes with backslashes: for example href=\"link.html\")
$prefix = "";

// 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);

?>