Comments on: Building my own Twitter badge with RSS

By: benjamin foucaud

benjamin foucaud — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:55:48 +0000

Hi !
thanks for this great tips,
i’m sorry but I have a problem: it does work locally, but not online, it echoes :
Cannot instantiate non-existent class: simplexmlelement in /homez.33/agencean/www/global/index.php on line 26

here is my code:
function DisplayTwitterFeed($feed_url, $num=10) {

$ch = curl_init(”$feed_url”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$x = new SimpleXmlElement($data);

//echo “”;

$i = 0;

foreach($x->channel->item as $entry) {
if($i == $num) break;
$i++;

//get the content and cut out the first word which is always @whatever
$tweet = $entry->title;

echo “”;

$tweet = preg_replace(’/(^|[^a-z0-9_])@([a-z0-9_]+)/i’, ‘$1@$2‘, $tweet);
echo $tweet.” “;
echo “”;
};

};

I would be very happy if you could help me fix it, I’m not that good in php.
thanks a lot. keep on great work !

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:37 +0000

You would have to use the API for the then if it isn’t in the RSS then you cant access it with this tutorial. Adding images next to tweets is outside the scope of this tutorial anyway which is just a quick easy way to show tweets on your website.

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:49:09 +0000

How to include the avatar images along with the tweets. In the twitter rss their isn’t the img options !

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By: admin

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:29:44 +0000

Still seemed like a good idea to tell people about it and link them to a good source. Im doing an update of the article soon with the official API.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:41:08 +0000

Thanks for the link to my article on cURL and allow_url_fopen. allow_url_fopen is not a security risk by itself, you just need to be careful about the sites you use it to access and to not allow user input to dictate what it accesses.

Great article, by the way. :)

By: Will

Will — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:49:11 +0000

Thanks for that. I have used the Simple XML component before, but never really found a good use for it. This might be just that.