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  1. reformatco revised this gist Sep 11, 2022. No changes.
  2. @benpalmer79 benpalmer79 created this gist Mar 16, 2012.
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    function getTweets($user, $num = 3) {
    //first, get the user's timeline
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$user.json?count=$num");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $json = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);

    if ($json === false) { return false; } //abort on error

    //second, convert the resulting json into PHP
    $result = json_decode($json);

    date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

    /* Added from Skidoosh at http://www.skidoosh.co.uk/php/create-twitter-like-date-formatted-strings-with-php/ */

    function twitter_time_format ($date) {

    $blocks = array (
    array('year', (3600 * 24 * 365)),
    array('month', (3600 * 24 * 30)),
    array('week', (3600 * 24 * 7)),
    array('day', (3600 * 24)),
    array('hour', (3600)),
    array('min', (60)),
    array('sec', (1))
    );

    $argtime = strtotime($date);
    $nowtime = time();

    $diff = $nowtime - $argtime;

    $res = array ();

    for ($i = 0; $i < count($blocks); $i++) {
    $title = $blocks[$i][0];
    $calc = $blocks[$i][1];
    $units = floor($diff / $calc);
    if ($units > 0) {
    $res[$title] = $units;
    }
    }

    if (isset($res['year']) && $res['year'] > 0) {
    if (isset($res['month']) && $res['month'] > 0 && $res['month'] < 12) {
    $format = "About %s %s %s %s ago";
    $year_label = $res['year'] > 1 ? 'years' : 'year';
    $month_label = $res['month'] > 1 ? 'months' : 'month';
    return sprintf($format, $res['year'], $year_label, $res['month'], $month_label);
    } else {
    $format = "About %s %s ago";
    $year_label = $res['year'] > 1 ? 'years' : 'year';
    return sprintf($format, $res['year'], $year_label);
    }
    }

    if (isset($res['month']) && $res['month'] > 0) {
    if (isset($res['day']) && $res['day'] > 0 && $res['day'] < 31) {
    $format = "About %s %s %s %s ago";
    $month_label = $res['month'] > 1 ? 'months' : 'month';
    $day_label = $res['day'] > 1 ? 'days' : 'day';
    return sprintf($format, $res['month'], $month_label, $res['day'], $day_label);
    } else {
    $format = "About %s %s ago";
    $month_label = $res['month'] > 1 ? 'months' : 'month';
    return sprintf($format, $res['month'], $month_label);
    }
    }

    if (isset($res['day']) && $res['day'] > 0) {
    if ($res['day'] == 1) {
    return sprintf("Yesterday at %s", date('h:i a', $argtime));
    }
    if ($res['day'] <= 7) {
    return date("\L\a\s\\t l \a\\t h:i a", $argtime);
    }
    if ($res['day'] <= 31) {
    return date("l \a\\t h:i a", $argtime);
    }
    }

    if (isset($res['hour']) && $res['hour'] > 0) {
    if ($res['hour'] > 1) {
    return sprintf("About %s hours ago", $res['hour']);
    } else {
    return "About an hour ago";
    }
    }

    if (isset($res['min']) && $res['min']) {
    if ($res['min'] == 1) {
    return "About one minute ago";
    } else {
    return sprintf("About %s minutes ago", $res['min']);
    }
    }

    if (isset ($res['sec']) && $res['sec'] > 0) {
    if ($res['sec'] == 1) {
    return "One second ago";
    } else {
    return sprintf("%s seconds ago", $res['sec']);
    }
    }
    }


    //third, build up the html output
    $s = '';
    foreach ($result as $item) {
    //handle any special characters
    $text = htmlentities($item->text, ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8');

    //build the metadata part
    //$meta = date('g:ia M jS', strtotime($item->created_at)) . ' from ' . $item->source;

    $meta = twitter_time_format($item->created_at);

    //parse the tweet text into html
    $text = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?(#\S+)?)?)?)@', '<a href="$1" class="hash">$1</a>', $text);
    $text = preg_replace('/@(\w+)/', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$1" class="mention">@$1</a>', $text);
    $text = preg_replace('/\s#(\w+)/', ' <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$1" class="hash" rel="nofollow">#$1</a>', $text);
    $text = preg_replace('/^#(\w+)/', '<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23$1" class="hash" rel="nofollow">#$1</a>', $text);

    //assemble everything
    $s .= '<p class="tweetc">' . $text . "</p>\n" . '<p class="tweet_time">' . $meta . "</p>\n";
    }

    return $s;
    }