Integrate latest tweets without plugin

  • Resolved Jeremy Herve

    (@hd-j)


    14 years, 3 months 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!

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  • Thread Starter Jeremy Herve

    (@hd-j)

    14 years, 3 months 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/

    ttehaute

    (@ttehaute)

    14 years, 2 months 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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