Recently, Tamela left a comment on my blog post twitterwordle blog post asking if I was selling the program that I used to create my twitterwordle image.

It is a simple PHP program and instead of selling it, I figured I'd just post it here. In addition, I've set it up on my server so you can access run it (providing I don't run out of bandwidth or access).

To run it, go to http://www.orient-lodge.com/node/3605?user=example

Put in the Twitter name instead of 'example' to get the statuses of the friends for whomever's name you enter.

<?php

$u = $_REQUEST["user"];
$page = 1;


while(1) {
  $ch=curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,'http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/'.$u.'.xml?page='.$page);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $xmlstr = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);

  try {
  $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
  } catch (Exception $e) {
     exit;
  }

  $i = 0;
  $uname = $xml->user[$i]->name;
  if ($uname == '') exit;
  while($uname != '') {
    $status = $xml->user[$i]->status->text;
    print $uname . " : " . $status . "<br>\n";
    $i = $i + 1;
    $uname = $xml->user[$i]->name;
  }
  $page = $page + 1;
}
?>