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Basic SimplePie Usage

You'll need a of copy SimplePie for the include right at the top here.

<?php
    require_once('inc/simplepie.inc');

    $feed = new SimplePie();

    $feed->set_feed_url(array(
    	'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=movie'
    ));

    $feed->enable_cache(true);
    $feed->set_cache_location('cache');
    $feed->set_cache_duration(15);

    $feed->init();

    $feed->handle_content_type();

    if ($feed->error): ?>

        <p><?php echo $feed->error; ?></p>

    <?php endif; ?>

    <?php foreach ($feed->get_items() as $item): ?>

    	<div class="chunk">

    		<h4 style="background:url(<?php $feed = $item->get_feed(); echo $feed->get_favicon(); ?>) no-repeat; text-indent: 25px; margin: 0 0 10px;"><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a></h4>

    		<p class="footnote">Source: <a href="<?php $feed = $item->get_feed(); echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>"><?php $feed = $item->get_feed(); echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a> | <?php echo $item->get_date('j M Y | g:i a T'); ?></p>

    	</div>

    <?php endforeach; 

?>

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  1. Matt

    I was playing around with this but it only loads the tweets the first time, then no further updates. I tried the workaround that SimplePie recommended, commenting out the lines of code, but it rendered the entire simplepie.inc file useless.

    Were you able to get this to work?

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