Display your Tweets Using WOW Tweet Show

Following my previous post how to display twitter posts on your site. I decided to tweak it further by adding a time since function and I have also renamed it WOW Tweet Show. This script has been depreciated in favor of the the new Twitter API. Check out WOW-Multi-Twitter 2.0

Code

This code has since been depreciated. It has been left purely for educational purposes.

<?php // Set timezone
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");

function dateDiff($time1, $time2, $precision = 6)
  {
    if (!is_int($time1))
      {
        $time1 = strtotime($time1);
      }
    if (!is_int($time2))
      {
        $time2 = strtotime($time2);
      }
    if ($time1 > $time2)
      {
        $ttime = $time1;
        $time1 = $time2;
        $time2 = $ttime;
      }
    $intervals = array(
        'year',
        'month',
        'day',
        'hour',
        'minute',
        'second'
    );
    $diffs     = array();
    
    foreach ($intervals as $interval)
      {
        $diffs[$interval] = 0;
        $ttime            = strtotime("+1 " . $interval, $time1);
        
        while ($time2 >= $ttime)
          {
            $time1 = $ttime;
            $diffs[$interval]++;
            $ttime = strtotime("+1 " . $interval, $time1);
          }
      }
    $count = 0;
    $times = array();
    
    foreach ($diffs as $interval => $value)
      {
        if ($count >= $precision)
          {
            break;
          }
        if ($value > 0)
          {
            if ($value != 1)
              {
                $interval .= "s";
              }
            $times[] = $value . " " . $interval;
            $count++;
          }
      }
    return implode(", ", $times);
  }
$doc = new DOMDocument();
#load the RSS -- replace 'USERNAME' with your user of choice

if ($doc->load('https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=USERNAME'))
  {
    echo "<ul>n";
    $max_tweets = 10; #number of <li> elements to display.  20 is the maximum
    $i          = 1;
    
    foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node)
      {
        # fetch the title from the RSS feed.
        $tweet = $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        
        #Fetch the link from the feed
        $link = $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        
        #This gets the date and separates it into sections
        $pubDate = $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        
        $month = substr($pubDate, 7, 4);
        $date  = substr($pubDate, 4, 3);
        $year  = substr($pubDate, 11, 5);
        $day   = substr($pubDate, 0, 3);
        $title = $day . $date . $month . $year;
        
        #pre-defined lazy tags
        $ddmmyy   = $date . $month . $year;
        $mmyy     = $month . $year;
        $mmddyy   = $month . $date . $year;
        $ddmm     = $date . $month;
        $today    = time();
        $timeDiff = dateDiff($today, $pubDate, 1);
        
        
        # the title of each tweet starts with "username: " which I want to remove
        $tweet = substr($tweet, stripos($tweet, ':') + 1);
        
        # OPTIONAL: turn URLs into links
        $tweet = preg_replace('@(https?://([-w.]+)+(:d+)?(/([w/_./-]*(?S+)?)?)?)@', '<a target="blank" title="$1" href="$1">$1</a>', $tweet);
        
        #OPTIONAL: turn hashtags into links
        $tweet = preg_replace('/#([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/', "<a target='blank' title='$1' href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23$1">#$1</a>", $tweet);
        
        #OPTIONAL: turn @replies into links
        $tweet = preg_replace("/@([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/", "<a target='blank' title='$1' href="https://twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>", $tweet);
        
        #The following line can changed to suit your needs.
        
        #echo "<li class='tweet'>"."<strong>"."<a href='$link' target='blank'title='$title'>".$ddmm ."</a>" ."</strong>"  .$tweet  ."</li>n";
        
        # echo "<li class='tweet'>"."<em>" . "<a href='$link' target='blank' title='$title'>" . $ddmmyy."</a>" . "</em>" . $tweet . "</li>n";
        
        #echo "<li class='tweet'>". $tweet . "<strong>". "<a href='$link' target='blank' title='$title'>" . $ddmmyy."</a>" . "</strong>" . "</li>n";
        
        #echo "<li class='tweet'>" . "<strong>" . $ddmm . "</strong>" . $tweet . "</li>n";
        
        #echo "<li class='smallTweet'>" . $ddmm . "</li> n";
        
        echo "<li class='tweet'>" . $tweet . "</li>n";
        
        echo "<li class='smallTweet'>" . 'about' . '&nbsp;' . $timeDiff . '&nbsp;' . 'ago' . "</li> n";
        
        if ($i++ >= $max_tweets)
            break;
      }
    echo "</ul>n";
  }
?>

Line 66Change USERNAME to your twitter username.
Line 124 displays the time since data.

You can style the CSS to suit your needs.