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// Queries the TweetMeme API to check for tweets about this url
// If no results, TweetMeme will create a story for this link
// Uses the get_url function: http://gist.github.com/370985
// Make sure you set the right permissions for you cache directory!

function tweetMeme($bloglink) {
// Set some vars:
	$tweetmemeAPI = 'http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=';

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// Don't like fopen(), use curl to get contents
function get_url($url) {
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
	$content = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);

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// Fixes a (long) link description to fit your shortened printed string
// uses WordCut: http://gist.github.com/370982
// @var = your full text string (function will cut this)

function linkfix($var) {
	$pattern = '%(<a href=")([-/_+0-9a-z]{3,})(">)(.*?)(</a>)%i';
	preg_match($pattern, $var, $matches);
	$newtext = wordCut($matches[4], 20, '...');

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<?php

// Generic function for nicely cutting of strings
// @text = textstring
// @limit = characters to display at end of string (...)
// @end = end at xth character

function wordCut($text, $limit, $end) {
	if (strlen($text) > $limit) {
		$text = strip_tags($text);

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// Function to fix the links in tweets (@'s and #'s)
// From http://www.snipe.net/2009/09/php-twitter-clickable-links/
function fixTweet($tweet) {
	$tweet = html_entity_decode($tweet);
	$tweet = preg_replace('#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t< ]*)#', '\\1<a href="\\2" target="_blank">\\2</a>', $tweet);
	$tweet = preg_replace('/(@([_a-z0-9\-]+))/i', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$2" title="View $2 on Twitter" target="_blank">$1</a>', $tweet);
	$tweet = preg_replace('/(#([_a-z0-9\-]+))/i', '<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$2" title="Search $1 on Twitter" target="_blank">$1</a>', $tweet);
	return $tweet;