php + json + twitter api

Tweet

<?php
// define the parameters you want to use
$username = ‘richardmaisano’;
$tweet_count = ’10′;

// define the api url
$url = ‘https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=’ . $username . ‘&count=’ . $count . ‘&include_entities=1&include_rts=1′;

// define the cache file you created
$cache = dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/caches/twitter’;

// check to see if the cache is older than five minutes
// if so, refresh the data
$cache_time = filemtime($cache);
$five_minutes = time() – 300;

if ($cache_time > $five_minutes)
{
        $data = file_get_contents($cache);
}
else
{
        $data = file_get_contents($url);
        $cachefile = fopen($cache, ‘wb’);
        fwrite($cachefile, $data);
        fclose($cachefile);
}

// set up the json return
$json = json_decode($data);

// the rest of the script just parses through the data,
// namely the date and time of tweet and any ‘entities’
if (!empty($json)) :
        foreach ($json as $tweet) :
                $datetime = $tweet->created_at;
                $date = date(‘M d, Y’, strtotime($datetime));
                $time = date(‘g:ia’, strtotime($datetime));
                $tweet_text = $tweet->text;

                // check if any entites exist and if so, replace then with hyperlinked versions
                if (!empty($tweet->entities->urls) || !empty($tweet->entities->hashtags) || !empty($tweet->entities->user_mentions)) {
                        foreach ($tweet->entities->urls as $url) {
                                $find = $url->url;
                                $replace = ‘<a href="’.$find.’">’.$find.’</a>’;
                                $tweet_text = str_replace($find,$replace,$tweet_text);
                        }
                                                       
                        foreach ($tweet->entities->hashtags as $hashtag) {
                                $find = ‘#’.$hashtag->text;
                                $replace = ‘<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23′.$hashtag->text.’">’.$find.’</a>’;
                                $tweet_text = str_replace($find,$replace,$tweet_text);
                        }
                                                       
                        foreach ($tweet->entities->user_mentions as $user_mention) {
                                $find = "@".$user_mention->screen_name;
                                $replace = ‘<a href="http://twitter.com/’.$user_mention->screen_name.’">’.$find.’</a>’;
                                $tweet_text = str_ireplace($find,$replace,$tweet_text);
                        }
                }
        ?>
                               
        <div class="entry tweet">
                <span><?php echo $tweet_text; ?></span>
                <div class="meta">
                        <small><?php echo $time; ?>, <?php echo $date; ?></small>
                </div>
        </div>
                               
        <?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

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