Comments on: Use PHP to cache and display your tweeted links

By: Jan-Marten de Boer

Jan-Marten de Boer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:39:48 +0000

I’d like to go with something that involves my login credentials and list my own timeline rather than the search results, because you’ll also get the rubbish that others post using your name this way. Except for using credentials, it’s a nice piece of work.

By: Brian Cray

Brian Cray — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:30:43 +0000

Derek: I hate to say it but I used this code on my site for less than one day. I found out tweetmeme.com published an RSS feed of my bookmarks and I just programmatically grab that RSS feed and display the links =) It makes it so I don’t show the tweet text… hehe

By: Derek Gathright

Derek Gathright — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:26:13 +0000

CURL is likely the proper way to go, but man it is such a pain to remember all those options. For those servers with PHP’s file_get_contents() by url enabled (most do), you can just do:

$url = ‘http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=’ . urlencode(‘from:’ . $username . ‘ filter:links’) . ‘&rpp=’ . $tweets;
file_get_contents($url);

Also, for those more comfortable using arrays in PHP as opposed to objects (likely most people), check out the 2nd param in json_decode(), it’s a boolean that flips the return type to an array instead of an object. So instead of $json->results, you can use $json['results']. With large, nested json responses, sometimes it can look like $json->results[0]->some_val->some_array[2]; Such a pain to remember what is an array and what is an object sometimes.

If anyone wants to do this with jQuery, which unloads the search request to the client and doesn’t eat up your API calls, you can check out my suggestion in the comments @ http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/07/twitter-api-how-to-create-stream-of.html#comment-15147955. Slight modification would need to be made for links.

Another great tutorial. Thanks Brian.

By: Magdalena Uri

Magdalena Uri — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:40:34 +0000

Serving a web page from a cache is an automated action, and the end user clicks on the link for the cached page. Magdalena Uri

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:11:01 +0000

I was looking for such a PHP snipped sometime now. Now got it through your blog.

Very neat! Thanks for sharing.

By: kevinbruce

kevinbruce — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:47:25 +0000

very nice, very clean and simple!

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By: Mantas K.

Mantas K. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:59:03 +0000

wow i havent touched PHP since 4.2 i believe…this will take time to get back into web programming …good tutorial, bookmarked and for sure will use!

By: Brian Cray

Brian Cray — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:43:11 +0000

You’re welcome =)

By: Nokadota

Nokadota — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:25:52 +0000

Oh now this is just wonderful. Thanks a bunch for the tutorial.