Twitter Tweet Ticker

You have a site and a twitter account, and want to show your tweets in a nice way? Here is a script that you can use for free.

Features

  • Neat, using jQuery
  • Caching. It will cache your tweets on the server, reducing loadtime

Download

  Twitter Tweet Ticker (38.3 KiB, 1,117 hits)

If you like the script I kindly ask you to donate a small amount further down the page

How to use

There is a readme file in the archive.

Place this on the page where you want it to appear:


<div id="twitter">
 <!-- replace with your own link -->
 <a href="http://twitter.com/tuthouse" target="_blank"><img src="images/twitter.png" border="0" /></a>
 <div id="twittertext"> </div>
 </div>

Replace the link with your own link.

Place this before the </body> tag


<script type="text/javascript">
 var newnews = $("<ul>").attr("class", "newsticker");
 <?php
 // Open the file
 $fh = fopen('twitter.txt', 'r') or die('Could not open file!');
 // Read it
 $data = fread($fh, filesize('twitter.txt'));
 // Split it up into an array
 $data = explode("|sep|", $data);

 // Loop trought the array
 for($i = 0; $i < count($data)-1;$i++){
 // Replace URLs so they are clickable
 $tweet = preg_replace("/(http:\\/(?:\\/[\\w\\.\\-]+)+)/", "<a href=\"$1\">$1</a>", $data[$i]);
 ?>
 newnews.append('<li><?php echo $tweet ?></li>');
 <?php
 }
 ?>

 newnews.appendTo("#twittertext").newsTicker();
 </script>

Place this in your <head> section


<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.newsticker.pack.js"></script>

Follow further instructions in the readme.txt file

Example

Example can be found here


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