http:\/\/www.phoenixheart.net\/2009\/05\/code-snippet-1-get-latest-tweet\/<\/a>. Since twitter has been having issues lately, I realized a need for a fall back value if the code couldn’t get anything. I also removed a variable declaration and then copied the returned value from the function to another variable, to hopefully optimize the code and make it work better and faster.<\/p>\n<?php\n\n \/\/ the function\n \/**\n * @desc Get latest tweet from a Twitter account\n * @param string The account's username\n * @return string The tweet\n * http:\/\/www.phoenixheart.net\/2009\/05\/code-snippet-1-get-latest-tweet\/\n *\n *\/\n function get_latest_tweet($username) {\n $url = \"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search.atom?q=from:$username&rpp=1\";\n $content = file_get_contents($url);\n $content = explode('<content type=\"html\">', $content);\n $content = explode('<\/content>', $content[1]);\n return html_entity_decode($content[0]);\n }\n $my_tweet = get_latest_tweet('TWITTERLOGIN');\n if ($my_tweet == NULL)\n {\necho \"Twitter is having issues again . . . .\";\n }\n else {\n echo \"$my_tweet\";\n }\n\n ?>\n<\/pre>\nJust paste this in a php file and change your twitter name so it gets the right feeds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On my homepage, you may notice that I have a bit of code to get my latest tweet for this website’s twitter account. Usually this is blog updates, but it may show other things. I originally found this code on http:\/\/www.phoenixheart.net\/2009\/05\/code-snippet-1-get-latest-tweet\/. Since twitter has been having issues lately, I realized a need for a fall… <\/p>\n
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