Award-winning web development since 1995
Written: September 21, 2009
I’ve really enjoyed working with Roland Smith over the past several years to keep his web site humming, Social Media growing, and newsletters sending. He decided it was time for a new look so we started adding elements that he envisioned:
Enjoy your visit to his site and maybe you’ll want to read one of his many adventure books.
At my marketing web site www.marketingeda.com I wanted to add a Twitter feed using PHP and found something at twitter.slawcup.com/twitter.class.phps that does just that.
The PHP coding is very simple to use with this class:
include_once(‘classes/class.twitter.php’);
$t = new twitter;
$t->username = ‘marketingeda’;
$t->password = ‘********’;
$data = $t->userTimeline();
foreach($data as $tweet) {
print “<li>$tweet->text</li>
“;
}
Here’s the output result of this PHP script:
I have a marketing web site at www.marketingeda.com and when I updated from PHP 4 to 5 my RSS feed reader stopped working. So I browsed for a simple replacement that worked well with PHP 5 and found something called MagpieRSS at SourceForge that worked wonderful.
Here’s the simple PHP code that I needed to insert on my page where I wanted the RSS feed to appear:
require(‘classes/rss/rss_fetch.inc’);
$rss = fetch_rss(‘http://www.chipdesignmag.com/payne/feed/’);
foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
$title = $item[title];
$url = $item[link];
$description = $item[description];
echo “<a href=$url>$title</a></li><br>$description<br>”;
}
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Here’s what this feed outputs on my page:
The American Marketing Association – Oregon Chapter organized an annual conference, then made this cool video to recap the value of attending. I’m the webmaster at www.ama-pdx.org
Tags: PHP, YouTube
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