get twitter updates question [php]

ChicoMendez · 23-07-2011 07:06PM #1

hi

im using php and curl to get twitter updates of a specific user

however i want to know if i can get the updates of several users in one call to twitter ?

tnx

heres an example of the curl script im using :

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function get_status($twitter_id, $hyperlinks = true) {
$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_id.xml?count=1");
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$src = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);
preg_match('/<text>(.*)<\/text>/', $src, $m);
$status = htmlentities($m[1]);
if( $hyperlinks ) $status = ereg_replace(":alpha:+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]", '<a href="%5C%22%5C%5C0%5C%22">\\0</a>', $status);
return($status);
}
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Creamy Goodness · 24-07-2011 12:29PM

don't think you can make multiple user requests to twitter like you want to.

stick it in a loop like so.

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$twitterUsers = array('stephenfry', 'ladygaga', 'boards_ie'); //etc.

$results = array();
foreach($twitterUsers as $tweeter)
{
$results[$tweeter] = get_status($tweeter);
}

print_r($results);
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fugee · 25-07-2011 10:55AM

why not use the twitter widget

http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

Very neat and updates as often as you set.

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