Latest twitter post on your web page

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Many web sites I create have a latest twitter feed on them. I also wanted my twitter feed links to work aswell.

I used to use rss2html but it kept erroring so came up with this solution instead.

1. Install XML Made Simple

2. Add your feed http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/example.rss

3. Create a new template called default

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{capture assign="twitterDesc"}{$xml->channel->item->description}{/capture}

‘{makeClickable textConvert=$twitterDesc}’

4. Create a UDT called make clickable

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$text = $params['textConvert'];

$text = eregi_replace('(((f|ht){1}tp://)[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)', '<a href="\\1">\\1</a>', $text);

$text = eregi_replace('([[:space:]()[{}])(www.[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]+)', '\\1<a href="http://\\2">\\2</a>', $text);

$text = eregi_replace('([_\.0-9a-z-]+@([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,3})', '<a href="mailto:\\1">\\1</a>', $text);

return $text;

Credit for this code from here http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/code/conver ... rlinks.htm

5. add your tag to your template

{cms_module module="XMLMadeSimple" feed_id="1" template="default"}