adapting wordpress functions for other webpages. RSS, php

titanium_geek · 11-03-2007, 06:10 AM

I want a "box" on my site that displays my most recent twitter post. I don't want to use the twitter provided code as it causes lag on site load time.

Solution I have seen: Paul's very groovy site. Problem, he uses Wordpress. (I use bBlog, if that helps) Glimmer of hope: the one I want to use, twitterrss (text file of php code) is GPL, so I can derive from it.

Now, this is my understanding of the problem (and solution):
You have the RSS feed from your Twitter account. Use magpie rss to pull the feed in and cache it so we don't annoy anyone by constantly checking the feed. Get the most recent item. Strip off what we don't want, show the result. (this is pretty twitterrss specific.)

So, I put the relevant files, the magpie rss (I believe this is installed correctly) and edited the twitterrss.php file to my details and put it in the public_html directory. (http://www.creativehedgehog.com/twitterrss.php

As you can see, that page is blank. How do I display the results? I assume that "function" is general php and not word press specific.

thanks heaps- my php is very very flakey.

titanium_geek

titanium_geek · 11-04-2007, 05:04 AM

please help me debug this! this is the code:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP test twitter page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>

<?php
require_once('magpierss/rss_fetch.inc');
$num_items = 1;
$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6586832.rss';
$rss = fetch_rss($url);

$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items);

foreach ( $items as $item ) {
  echo  '$item';
}

?>

</p>
</body>
</html>

the output:

Code:

items, 0, $num_items); foreach ( $items as $item ) { echo '$item'; } ?>

thanks!

titanium_geek