Question

I’ve created a twitter class with a method that pulls in the latest tweet depending on the user specified…uses twitter .XML

class twitter {

// Set twitter basepath
public $basepath = 'http://twitter.com/statuses';

function tweet($username){   

    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($this->basepath.'/user_timeline/'. $username .'.xml?count=1', NULL, TRUE);
    $status = $xml->status->text;

    return '<b>' . $username . ' says: </b>' . $status;
}

}

this echo’s out

XXXXX says: @XXXX Moving it up to 10am on Sunday - it's about a 1.5 hour drive.

How do I get php to link the “@” tag as a HTML link instead of just text??
Is there a way to look for the string “@” and replace the remaining word with a href?

Answer 1

I’m using this one:

$status = preg_replace('#@(\w+)\b#', '<a href="http://twitter.com/$1">@$1</a>', $status);