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egr103
egr103

Reputation: 4018

PHP calling in more than 1 Tweet

I have this code that creates an array of tweets based on the count value (currently set to 5) however, when I try to display the tweets I get nothing but the word Array repeated 5 times (and not the actual tweets), could anyone help me troubleshoot what I'm doing wrong?

By the way, if I change the count to 1 and just echo the variable $tweet, I get the latest tweet display correctly.

function get_tweet() {

require 'parts/tmhOAuth.php';
require 'parts/tmhUtilities.php';

$tmhOAuth = new tmhOAuth(array(
 'consumer_key' => 'taken out for security purposes',
 'consumer_secret' => 'taken out for security purposes',
 'user_token' => 'taken out for security purposes',
 'user_secret' => 'taken out for security purposes',
 'curl_ssl_verifypeer' => false
));

$code = $tmhOAuth->request('GET', $tmhOAuth->url('1.1/statuses/user_timeline'), array(
'screen_name' => 'designernewsbot',
'count' => '5'));

$response = $tmhOAuth->response['response'];
$tweets = json_decode($response, true);

// This is to create links in my webpage if links are specified in the tweet
$tweet = $tweets[0]['text'];
$tweet = preg_replace("/([\w]+\:\/\/[\w-?&;#~=\.\/\@]+[\w\/])/", "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$1\">$1</a>", $tweet);
$tweet = preg_replace("/#([A-Za-z0-9\/\.]*)/", "<a target=\"_new\" href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=$1\">#$1</a>", $tweet);
$tweet = preg_replace("/@([A-Za-z0-9\/\.]*)/", "<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/$1\">@$1</a>", $tweet);

foreach($tweets as $tweet):

    echo $tweet;

endforeach;


}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Amal
Amal

Reputation: 76666

The issue is in your foreach loop. You're trying to print $echo inside the loop, which is an array. So you'll receive an Array to string conversion error.

A for loop seems more suitable in this case:

for ($i=0; $i < count($tweets); $i++) { 
    echo $tweets[$i]['text']."\n";
}

Update:

To also show the links in tweets, you can do:

for ($i=0; $i < count($tweets); $i++) { 
    //echo $tweets[$i]['text']."\n";
    $var = preg_replace("/([\w]+\:\/\/[\w-?&;#~=\.\/\@]+[\w\/])/", "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$1\">$1</a>", $tweets[$i]['text']);
    $var = preg_replace("/#([A-Za-z0-9\/\.]*)/", "<a target=\"_new\" href=\"http://twitter.com/search?q=$1\">#$1</a>", $var);
    $var = preg_replace("/@([A-Za-z0-9\/\.]*)/", "<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/$1\">@$1</a>", $var);
    echo $var."\n";
}

I've tested this and it works. Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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