Display Latest Twitter Status Using PHP
Last Updated : Jul 1, 2023
In this tutorial we will show you how to display your latest twitter status using PHP. There are many websites which uses this feature in their website to keep updated their user from latest status of website on twitter.
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To Display Latest Twitter Status It Takes Only Two Steps:-
- Create a Twitter app and get all the details
- Make a PHP file to display twitter status
Step 1. Create a Twitter app and get all the details
You have to create an application on twitter from here https://apps.twitter.com/.
Then you need to collect API keys, API secrets and your access token, access token secret.You also need to download Twitter Outh PHP Library to get your latest status from twitter.
Step 2. Make a PHP file to display twitter status
We make a PHP file and save it with a name status.php
<html>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<?php
include_once('twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php');
$twitter_customer_key = 'Your API Key';
$twitter_customer_secret = 'Your API Secret';
$twitter_access_token = 'Your Access Token Key';
$twitter_access_token_secret = 'Your Access Token Secret';
$connection = new TwitterOAuth($twitter_customer_key, $twitter_customer_secret, $twitter_access_token, $twitter_access_token_secret);
$my_tweets = $connection->get('statuses/user_timeline', array('screen_name' => 'Your Name', 'count' => 1));
echo '<div class="twitter-bubble">';
if(isset($my_tweets->errors))
{
echo 'Error :'. $my_tweets->errors[0]->code. ' - '. $my_tweets->errors[0]->message;
}
else
{
echo $my_tweets[0]->text;
}
echo '</div>';
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In this step we insert twitter outh library which is required to get your latest status and then we add all our details like keys and secrets then we create a object of TwitterOAuth by passing all the details in it and then we get and display our latest status or tweets from twitter.
Thats all, this is how to display latest twitter status using PHP.You can customize this code further as per your requirement. And please feel free to give comments on this tutorial.
I hope this tutorial on display tweets php helps you and the steps and method mentioned above are easy to follow and implement.
About Amruta
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