2 Different Ways For Getting Twitter Status / PHP and jQuery

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;
}

function getTweet(){
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:TwitterProfileName&rpp=1";
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo parse_feed($twitterFeed);
}

$.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json?callback=?", function(data) {
     $("#theIdOfTheElement").html(data[0].text);
});

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6 comments

1. 
   by Christiaan Baartse on March 9, 2010

   You could also fetch the JSON using PHP like this (replacing your username ofc)

   <?php
   $json = file_get_contents("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.json");
   $json = json_decode($json, true);
   echo $json[0]['text'];
   
   // or display last 3
   for($i=0; $i < 3 && isset($json[$i]); $i++) {
   echo $json[$i]['text'];
   }
   
2. 
   by Boba on March 9, 2010

   @Christiaan – Thanks, that’s a good one too
3. 
   by SM on March 9, 2010

   Nice solution. Thanks
4. 
   by Boba on March 9, 2010

   @SM –
5. 
   by praca sanok on March 13, 2010

   Nice. THX!
6. 
   by Ryan Barr on May 27, 2010

   Great solutions, including @Christiaan’s. The PHP one looks similar to an old PHP one I wrote:
   http://scriptplayground.com/tutorials/php/Latest-Twitter-Update-With-PHP/

   However, these days file_get_contents() may throw an error with your server/the Twitter server. I wrote a PHP Class that uses cURL to bring the feed in to avoid any permissions errors.
   http://blog.spookyismy.name/2010/05/18/twitter-integration-class-using-php5-and-curl/