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1. Jeremy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi!

   I have been looking for a good solution to integrate latest tweets of a particular account into my sidebar, without a plugin.
   I have tried the solution given by Joost De Valk here:http://yoast.com/display-latest-tweet/

   Here is my code:

   In my functions.php:
   

   // get latest tweet and number of followers
   function get_tweet_info(){
   	require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-snoopy.php');
   $tweet   = get_option("lasttweet");
   $url  = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/jeherve.json?count=20";
   if ($tweet['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() - 60 ) ) {
     $snoopy = new Snoopy;
     $result = $snoopy->fetch($url);
     if ($result) {
       $twitterdata   = json_decode($snoopy->results,true);
       $i = 0;
       while ($twitterdata[$i]['in_reply_to_user_id'] != '') {
         $i++;
       }
       $pattern  = '/\@([a-zA-Z]+)/';
       $replace  = '<a href="http://twitter.com/'.strtolower('\1').'">@\1</a>';
       $output   = preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$twitterdata[$i]["text"]);  
   
       $tweet['lastcheck'] = mktime();
       $tweet['data']    = $output;
       $tweet['rawdata']  = $twitterdata;
       $tweet['followers'] = $twitterdata[0]['user']['followers_count'];
       update_option('lasttweet',$tweet);
     } else {
       echo "Twitter API not responding.";
     }
   } else {
     $output = $tweet['data'];
   }
   echo "<p>\"".$output."\"</p>";
   };
   
   add_action('middlesidebar', 'get_tweet_info');

   and my hook in my sidebar of course:
   <?php do_action('middlesidebar'); ?>

   For some reason, it is still really slow.

   Would there be a mistake in my code, or would there be a better solution?

   Thanks!

2. Jeremy
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Alright, I gave up with the API, I am pulling the tweets from the feed now, it works fine:
   

   $username = "jeherve"; // Your twitter username.
   $limit = "3"; // Number of tweets to pull in.
   
   /* These prefixes and suffixes will display before and after the entire block of tweets. */
   $prefix = ""; // Prefix - some text you want displayed before all your tweets.
   $suffix = ""; // Suffix - some text you want displayed after all your tweets.
   $tweetprefix = ""; // Tweet Prefix - some text you want displayed before each tweet.
   $tweetsuffix = "<br />"; // Tweet Suffix - some text you want displayed after each tweet.
   
   $feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=" . $limit;
   
   function parse_feed($feed, $prefix, $tweetprefix, $tweetsuffix, $suffix) {
   
   $feed = str_replace("<", "<", $feed);
   $feed = str_replace(">", ">", $feed);
   $clean = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
   
   $amount = count($clean) - 1;
   
   echo $prefix;
   
   for ($i = 1; $i <= $amount; $i++) {
   $cleaner = explode("</content>", $clean[$i]);
   echo $tweetprefix;
   echo $cleaner[0];
   echo $tweetsuffix;
   }
   
   echo $suffix;
   }
   
   $twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
   parse_feed($twitterFeed, $prefix, $tweetprefix, $tweetsuffix, $suffix);

   Thanks to Instantshift: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/05/25/10-twitter-hacks-for-your-wordpress-blog/

3. TteHaute
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,
   I don't understand where I must copy the previous code to have the feed in my side bar ?
   I tried into a new html code but I don't work.

   Thanks in advance,
   Yoann

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