Question

I found this code
(full version here http://blog.loicg.net/developpement-web/lire-twitter-stream-php-curl)

function read_the_stream($sTrackingList){
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json');
 curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD,TWITTER_LOGIN.':'.TWITTER_PASSWORD);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, '');
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-Twitter-Client: ItsMe','X-Twitter-Client-Version: 0.1','X-Twitter-Client-URL: http://rien.net/'));
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"track=".$sTrackingList);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, 'write_callback');

 curl_exec($ch);
 curl_close($ch);
}

It’s work for me but now i don’t know how to stop it (for making test it’s horrible, my new php file not interpreted!)

Answer 1

You should either put this code inside a script that is not executed on a webpage (like a daemon) or you should not use the stream.

If you want to get only 100 tweets, then use some of the other twitter API for that.

If you want a stop button, consider:

• have your other script populate some database (or a queue like redis or ActiveMQ) and then you can have your webpage get your own stream using AJAX
• Simply using AJAX to call a script that reads the feeds.