SimpleTwit

The object has the following methods:

• get_source() – Returns the string representing the device used to Tweet this status
• get_raw_tweet() – Returns the cached raw response from the API as an object, this should rarely be used as almost all information on the Tweet is accessible without loading this object
• get_author_link() – Returns a string that is the link to the Tweet’s author’s page on Twitter
• get_retweet_info() – Returns the info on the original Tweet of a Retweet, or false if the Tweet is not a Retweet, the object returned contains: username – The Twitter username of the original Tweet
• screenname – The Twitter screenname of the original Tweet
• content – The unformatted content of the original Tweet
• time_gmt – The GMT time of the Retweet
• url – A direct link to the original Tweet
• user_url – A direct link to the profile of the original Twitter user

get_reply_info() – Returns the info on the original status that this Tweet is replying to, the info is as follows:

• url – The direct link to the original status
• in_reply_to_name – The screenname of the original Twitter user
• in_reply_to_user_url – The direct link to the original Twitter user’s profile

get_author_info() – Gets the raw object response from the Twitter API scrape, there are a lot of variables in the raw object, but here’s the main attributes:

• id_str – The id of the user
• name – The nice name of the author account
• screen_name – The username of the author account
• description – The self-provided description of the author on Twitter
• created_at – The creation date of the Twitter author account
• profile_image_url – Link to the profile image of the Twitter author account
• profile_image_url_https – Secure link to the profile image of the Twitter author account

stf_get_tweets($args)

This will be the main function used to get Tweets from the DB. This function takes an array of parameters as follows:

• $args['num'] – This tells us how many Tweets to get from the DB, defaults to 5
• $args['offset'] – This tells us how many Tweets to skip over when selecting our Tweets, defaults to 0
• $args['retweets'] – This tells us whether or not to get Retweets, defaults to true
• $args['replies'] – This tells us whether or not to get Replies, defaults to true This function returns an array of STF_Tweet objects, the use of these objects is described above

Contributors

• George Yates III
• alexsomeoddpilot

Future Development

• Database Functions (Delete, Rescrape)
• Multiple Twitter Streams
• Define the interval between feed scrapes
• Allow users to Retweet and Reply with their own accounts right from your site
• Add in shortcode support for recent Tweet display