So, here's something I whipped together for my site a while back. It's very rough and hacky, and I'll need to rewrite it at some point soon - bonus prize of a Forrst invite goes to the first person to correctly identify the main way it could be improved.
<?php
/**
* Displays the most recent tweets from the specified Twitter account.
*
* Options to limit to X tweets and include/exclude retweets. Supports multiple instances.
*/
class Twitter_Widget extends WP_Widget {
function Twitter_Widget() {
/* Widget settings. */
$widget_ops = array(
'username' => 'Your username here',
'limit' => 4,
'show_retweets' => true,
'description' => 'A widget to show your latest tweets'
);
/* Widget control settings. */
$control_ops = array(
'width' => 300,
'height' => 350,
'id_base' => 'twitter-widget'
);
/* Create the widget. */
$this->WP_Widget('twitter-widget', 'RD Twitter Widget', $widget_ops, $control_ops);
}
function widget($args, $instance) {
extract($args);
/* User-selected settings. */
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
$username = $instance['username'];
$limit = $instance['limit'];
$show_retweets = $instance['show_retweets'];
/* Before widget (defined by themes). */
echo $before_widget;
/* Title of widget (before and after defined by themes). */
if ($title) {
echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
}
$feedURL = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/' . $username . '.rss'; // change to your feed URL
$format = get_option('date_format') . ' ' . get_option('time_format');
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load($feedURL);
$arrFeeds = array();
foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
$itemRSS = array(
'tweet_title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
'tweet_date' => date($format, strtotime($node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue)),
'tweet_link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue
);
if ($show_retweets == true || strrpos($itemRSS['tweet_title'], 'RT ') == false) {
array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);
}
}
?>
<ul class="tweets">
<?php
for ($x = 0; $x < $limit; $x++) {
$tweet_title = str_replace($username . ': ', '', $arrFeeds[$x]['tweet_title']);
$str = ereg_replace('[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]', '<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>', $tweet_title);
$pattern = '/[#|@][^\s]*/';
preg_match_all($pattern, $str, $matches);
foreach ($matches[0] as $keyword) {
$keyword = str_replace(")", "", $keyword);
$link = str_replace("#", "%23", $keyword);
$link = str_replace("@", "", $keyword);
if (strstr($keyword, "@")) {
$search = '<a href="http://twitter.com/' . $link . '">' . $keyword . '</a>';
} else {
$link = urlencode($link);
$search = '<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=' . $link . '">' . $keyword . '</a>';
}
$str = str_replace($keyword, $search, $str);
}
?>
<li>
<p class="tweet"><?php echo $str ?></p>
<p class="published">- <a href="<?php echo $arrFeeds[$x]['tweet_link']; ?>"><?php echo $arrFeeds[$x]['tweet_date']; ?></a></p>
</li>
<?php
}
?>
</ul>
<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?
}
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
$instance = $old_instance;
/* Strip tags (if needed) and update the widget settings. */
$instance['title'] = strip_tags($new_instance['title']);
$instance['username'] = strip_tags($new_instance['username']);
$instance['limit'] = $new_instance['limit'];
$instance['show_retweets'] = $new_instance['show_retweets'];
return $instance;
}
function form($instance) {
/* Set up some default widget settings. */
$defaults = array('title' => 'Latest Tweets', 'username' => 'Example', 'limit' => 5, 'show_retweets' => true);
$instance = wp_parse_args((array) $instance, $defaults);
?>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>">Title:</label>
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" value="<?php echo $instance['title']; ?>" style="width:100%;" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('username'); ?>">Your Twitter Username:</label>
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('username'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('username'); ?>" value="<?php echo $instance['username']; ?>" style="width:100%;" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('limit'); ?>">Number of Tweets to show:</label>
<input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('limit'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('limit'); ?>" value="<?php echo $instance['limit']; ?>" />
</p>
<p>
<input class="checkbox" type="checkbox" <?php checked($instance['show_retweets'], true); ?> id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('show_retweets'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('show_retweets'); ?>" />
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('show_retweets'); ?>">Include retweets?</label>
</p>
<?php
}
}
?>
This post has been edited by Renaissance-Design: 20 November 2011 - 03:19 PM
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