Display your Tweets Using WOW Tweet Show

By Tracy Ridge

Following my previous post how to display twitter posts on your site. I decided to tweak it further by adding a time since function and I have also renamed it WOW Tweet Show. Check my footer for an example. I would like to thank JR over at IF Not True Then False for the handy PHP function. This script has been depreciated in favor of the the new Twitter API. Check out http://www.worldoweb.co.uk/2012/wordpress-display-your-cached-tweets-using-php-and-oauth

<?php // Set timezone
date_default_timezone_set("UTC");

function dateDiff($time1, $time2, $precision = 6)
  {
    if (!is_int($time1))
      {
        $time1 = strtotime($time1);
      }
    if (!is_int($time2))
      {
        $time2 = strtotime($time2);
      }
    if ($time1 > $time2)
      {
        $ttime = $time1;
        $time1 = $time2;
        $time2 = $ttime;
      }
    $intervals = array(
        'year',
        'month',
        'day',
        'hour',
        'minute',
        'second'
    );
    $diffs     = array();
    
    foreach ($intervals as $interval)
      {
        $diffs[$interval] = 0;
        $ttime            = strtotime("+1 " . $interval, $time1);
        
        while ($time2 >= $ttime)
          {
            $time1 = $ttime;
            $diffs[$interval]++;
            $ttime = strtotime("+1 " . $interval, $time1);
          }
      }
    $count = 0;
    $times = array();
    
    foreach ($diffs as $interval => $value)
      {
        if ($count >= $precision)
          {
            break;
          }
        if ($value > 0)
          {
            if ($value != 1)
              {
                $interval .= "s";
              }
            $times[] = $value . " " . $interval;
            $count++;
          }
      }
    return implode(", ", $times);
  }
$doc = new DOMDocument();
#load the RSS -- replace 'USERNAME' with your user of choice

if ($doc->load('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=USERNAME'))
  {
    echo "<ul>n";
    $max_tweets = 10; #number of <li> elements to display.  20 is the maximum
    $i          = 1;
    
    foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node)
      {
        # fetch the title from the RSS feed.
        $tweet = $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        
        #Fetch the link from the feed
        $link = $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        
        #This gets the date and separates it into sections
        $pubDate = $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        
        $month = substr($pubDate, 7, 4);
        $date  = substr($pubDate, 4, 3);
        $year  = substr($pubDate, 11, 5);
        $day   = substr($pubDate, 0, 3);
        $title = $day . $date . $month . $year;
        
        #pre-defined lazy tags
        $ddmmyy   = $date . $month . $year;
        $mmyy     = $month . $year;
        $mmddyy   = $month . $date . $year;
        $ddmm     = $date . $month;
        $today    = time();
        $timeDiff = dateDiff($today, $pubDate, 1);
        
        
        # the title of each tweet starts with "username: " which I want to remove
        $tweet = substr($tweet, stripos($tweet, ':') + 1);
        
        # OPTIONAL: turn URLs into links
        $tweet = preg_replace('@(https?://([-w.]+)+(:d+)?(/([w/_./-]*(?S+)?)?)?)@', '<a target="blank" title="$1" href="$1">$1</a>', $tweet);
        
        #OPTIONAL: turn hashtags into links
        $tweet = preg_replace('/#([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/', "<a target='blank' title='$1' href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23$1">#$1</a>", $tweet);
        
        #OPTIONAL: turn @replies into links
        $tweet = preg_replace("/@([0-9a-zA-Z_-]+)/", "<a target='blank' title='$1' href="http://twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>", $tweet);
        
        #The following line can changed to suit your needs.
        
        #echo "<li class='tweet'>"."<strong>"."<a href='$link' target='blank'title='$title'>".$ddmm ."</a>" ."</strong>"  .$tweet  ."</li>n";
        
        # echo "<li class='tweet'>"."<em>" . "<a href='$link' target='blank' title='$title'>" . $ddmmyy."</a>" . "</em>" . $tweet . "</li>n";
        
        #echo "<li class='tweet'>". $tweet . "<strong>". "<a href='$link' target='blank' title='$title'>" . $ddmmyy."</a>" . "</strong>" . "</li>n";
        
        #echo "<li class='tweet'>" . "<strong>" . $ddmm . "</strong>" . $tweet . "</li>n";
        
        #echo "<li class='smallTweet'>" . $ddmm . "</li> n";
        
        echo "<li class='tweet'>" . $tweet . "</li>n";
        
        echo "<li class='smallTweet'>" . 'about' . '&nbsp;' . $timeDiff . '&nbsp;' . 'ago' . "</li> n";
        
        if ($i++ >= $max_tweets)
            break;
      }
    echo "</ul>n";
  }
?>

Line 66Change USERNAME to your twitter username.
Line 124 displays the time since data.

You can style the CSS to suit your needs.

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