Php code for twitter interaction

Let’s take a look how php code interacts with twitter.

1.) How to get number of  twitter followers.

fnction get_followers($twitter_id){
    $xml=file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name='.$twitter_id);
    if (preg_match('/followers_count>(.*)</',$xml,$match)!=0) {
        $tw['count'] = $match[1];
    }
 
    return $tw['count'];
}

Now call this function with this code

$followers = get_followers(‘vimalm4u’);
echo “You have”.$followers.”followers!”;

2.) Get number of retweets for a specific page.

       Function will get the number of  retweets of the url passed as a parameter

function rtweetCount($url) {
   $content = file_get_contents("http://api.tweetmeme.com/url_info?url=".$url);
   $element = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
   $retweets = $element->story->url_count;
   if($retweets){
       return $retweets;
   } else {
       return 0;
   }
}
 
echo rtweetCount('http://www.coffeewithcode.com');

3) Shorten urls for Twitter

      As we know, we can’t tweets messages which are longer than 140 characters. To avoid this problem, you have to use an url shortener.

function getTinyUrl($url) {
   return file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=".$url);
}