Display Most Recent Twitter Entry in Wordpress

Posted: February 3rd, 2009 | Filed under: Wordpress Hacks | Tags: , , , ,

WordPress Hacks // Your twitter username.
$username = "TwitterUsername";
// Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet.
// (HTML is OK, but be sure to escape quotes with backslashes: for example href="link.html")
$prefix = "";
// Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.)
$suffix = "";
$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=1";
function parse_feed($feed) {
$stepOne = explode("", $feed);
$stepTwo = explode("
", $stepOne[1]);
$tweet = $stepTwo[0];
$tweet = str_replace(”<”, “<”, $tweet);
$tweet = str_replace(”>”, “>”, $tweet);
return $tweet;
}
$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo stripslashes($prefix) . parse_feed($twitterFeed) . stripslashes($suffix);
?>



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