Apr
23

[Snippet] Twitter Status using PHP cURL

Circuitbomb Code 1 comment

This little snippet was originally used in a small CodeIgniter library I wrote which would fetch my most recent tweet, the source of the tweet, and the amount of followers I currently had.

//Change the value of $user to your Twitter username
$user = 'yourusername';  
 
$ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name='.$user);  
 
//We are going to open/create a local file to write our fetched data to it.
$fp = fopen('/'.$user.'.xml', "w");
//Set cURL options for our file, not to write the XML header 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);  
 
//Excecute cURL
curl_exec($ch);  
 
//Lets close up these functions
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);  
 
//This is the location of the user.xml file
$file = '/'.$user.'.xml';  
 
//Here we call PHP's SimpleXMLElement Class to handle the .xml file
 $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($file, NULL, TRUE);  
 
//Simply declare that $path is an array that contains all of  node
$path = $xml->xpath('/user');  
 
//create an array of the elements in the xml file we want to display
foreach ($path as $node)
{
           $status = array('time' => $node->status->created_at,
                         'text' => $node->status->text,
                         'source' => $node->status->source,
                         'followers' => $node->followers_count);
}  
 
print_r($status);
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