Question

I use the following code

foreach ($twitter_xml2->channel->item as $key) {
    $author = $key->{"guid"};
    echo"<li><h5>$author</h5></li>";
}

and it gets me http://twitter.com/USERNAME/statuses/167382363782206976

My question is how do I get only the username ?

Username may be anything

Answer 1

$url = "http://twitter.com/USERNAME/statuses/167382363782206976"
preg_match("#http://twitter.com/([^\/]+)/statuses/.*#", $url, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);