Twitter Feed Function for Wordpress

wp-fn-twitter

function getTweets($user, $num = 3) {
    //first, get the user's timeline
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$user.json?count=$num");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $json = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
 
    if ($json === false) { return false; } //abort on error
 
    //second, convert the resulting json into PHP
    $result = json_decode($json);
 
	date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

	/* Added from Skidoosh at http://www.skidoosh.co.uk/php/create-twitter-like-date-formatted-strings-with-php/ */

	function twitter_time_format ($date) {

		$blocks = array (
			array('year',  (3600 * 24 * 365)),
			array('month', (3600 * 24 * 30)),
			array('week',  (3600 * 24 * 7)),
			array('day',   (3600 * 24)),
			array('hour',  (3600)),
			array('min',   (60)),
			array('sec',   (1))
		);

		$argtime = strtotime($date);
		$nowtime = time();

		$diff    = $nowtime - $argtime;

		$res = array ();

		for ($i = 0; $i < count($blocks); $i++) {
			$title = $blocks[$i][0];
			$calc  = $blocks[$i][1];
			$units = floor($diff / $calc);
			if ($units > 0) {
				$res[$title] = $units;
			}
		}

		if (isset($res['year']) && $res['year'] > 0) {
			if (isset($res['month']) && $res['month'] > 0 && $res['month'] < 12) {
				$format      = "About %s %s %s %s ago";
				$year_label  = $res['year'] > 1 ? 'years' : 'year';
				$month_label = $res['month'] > 1 ? 'months' : 'month';
				return sprintf($format, $res['year'], $year_label, $res['month'], $month_label);
			} else {
				$format     = "About %s %s ago";
				$year_label = $res['year'] > 1 ? 'years' : 'year';
				return sprintf($format, $res['year'], $year_label);
			}
		}

		if (isset($res['month']) && $res['month'] > 0) {
			if (isset($res['day']) && $res['day'] > 0 && $res['day'] < 31) {
				$format      = "About %s %s %s %s ago";
				$month_label = $res['month'] > 1 ? 'months' : 'month';
				$day_label   = $res['day'] > 1 ? 'days' : 'day';
				return sprintf($format, $res['month'], $month_label, $res['day'], $day_label);
			} else {
				$format      = "About %s %s ago";
				$month_label = $res['month'] > 1 ? 'months' : 'month';
				return sprintf($format, $res['month'], $month_label);
			}
		}

		if (isset($res['day']) && $res['day'] > 0) {
			if ($res['day'] == 1) {
				return sprintf("Yesterday at %s", date('h:i a', $argtime));
			}
			if ($res['day'] <= 7) {
				return date("\L\a\s\\t l \a\\t h:i a", $argtime);
			}
			if ($res['day'] <= 31) {
				return date("l \a\\t h:i a", $argtime);
			}
		}

		if (isset($res['hour']) && $res['hour'] > 0) {
			if ($res['hour'] > 1) {
				return sprintf("About %s hours ago", $res['hour']);
			} else {
				return "About an hour ago";
			}
		}

		if (isset($res['min']) && $res['min']) {
			if ($res['min'] == 1) {
				return "About one minute ago";
			} else {
				return sprintf("About %s minutes ago", $res['min']);
			}
		}

		if (isset ($res['sec']) && $res['sec'] > 0) {
			if ($res['sec'] == 1) {
				return "One second ago";
			} else {
				return sprintf("%s seconds ago", $res['sec']);
			}
		}
	}
	

    //third, build up the html output
    $s = '';
    foreach ($result as $item) {
        //handle any special characters
        $text = htmlentities($item->text, ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8');
 
        //build the metadata part
        //$meta = date('g:ia M jS', strtotime($item->created_at)) . ' from ' . $item->source;
 
		$meta = twitter_time_format($item->created_at);
		
        //parse the tweet text into html
        $text = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?(#\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1" class="hash">$1</a>', $text);
        $text = preg_replace('/@(\w+)/', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$1" class="mention">@$1</a>', $text);
        $text = preg_replace('/\s#(\w+)/', ' <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$1" class="hash" rel="nofollow">#$1</a>', $text);
 		$text = preg_replace('/^#(\w+)/', '<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$1" class="hash" rel="nofollow">#$1</a>', $text);

        //assemble everything
        $s .= '<p class="tweetc">' . $text . "</p>\n" . '<p class="tweet_time">' . $meta . "</p>\n";
    }
 
    return $s;
}