In my website I have a section where I generate HTML from a twitter

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Asked: June 1, 20262026-06-01T21:27:12+00:00 2026-06-01T21:27:12+00:00

In my website I have a section where I generate HTML from a twitter

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In my website I have a section where I generate HTML from a twitter feed. Here is the php code that wraps the section in HTML:

    <p class="columns">
    <?
    require ("twitter-feed.php");
    echo generatetwitter();
    ?>
    </p>

the generatetwitter(); method returns this as a string:

    <li class="twitter">&#x201c;@<a class=" " href="http://twitter.com/lecrae">lecrae</a>: If people throw stones at you, pick em up and build something. <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23stayfocused" title="#stayfocused" class=" ">#stayfocused</a>&#x201d;</li>

When the page generates it shows the code properly in the “View Source” option of Chrome and Firefox, but when I do “inspect element” it shows this

    <p class="columns"></p>
    <li class="twitter">...</li>
    <p></p>

So the class CSS isn’t getting applied to the twitter feed. I need the twitter feed to be in the p tags with the class defined.

Some points:

generatetwitter() returns the HTML in a string
I’ve tried having twitter-feed.php (the generatetwitter() method) echoing out the HTML directly, but it makes no difference. I’ve had the same results every time.
when the generatetwitter() method is overridden to return only a normal string “eg return “test”;” it works normally.
It seems that this doesn’t work if the generatetwitter() method returns anything but regular text (excluding HTML).