Displaying Recent Tweets via Twitter’s RSS

recent-tweets-via-rss.php

<?php # File created on 1st April 2009 by Mike Rogers (http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/).
/*
function – recent_tweets(string $username [, int $limit = 5])
$username – Your twitter username, such as rogem002
$limit – Default: 5 – how many tweets you wish to show, must be numeric.
*/

function recent_tweets($username, $limit=5){
	if(!is_numeric($limit)){$limit = 5;}
	$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3A'.urlencode($username));
	$items_count= count($xml->entry);
	if($items_count < $limit){$limit = $items_count;}
	$i = 0;
	$return .= '
	<ul>';
	while($i < $limit){
		$return .= '
		<li title="'.$xml->entry[$i]->title.'"><!– '.$xml->entry[$i]->published.' –>'.$xml->entry[$i]->content.'</li>
		
		';
		$i++;
	}
	$return .= '</ul>
	
	';
	
	return $return;
}

echo recent_tweets('rogem002', 5);

/*
You are free to share, modify and use this code for commercial uses. Please give a link back (to http://www.fullondesign.co.uk/ ) if you can, but you don't have you.
*/
?>