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    copied!<p>I have a function that gets friends and followers of a twitter account. I'm making a "Who's Not Following back app" How do I filter the xml/json data (I can use both) ie to echo what is in following but not in followers.</p> <p>Here's my code</p> <pre><code>function twitter_notf_page($query) { $user = $query[1]; if (!$user) { user_ensure_authenticated(); $user = user_current_username(); } $request = API_URL."statuses/friends/{$user}.xml"; $tla = lists_paginatedd_process($request); $request = API_URL."statuses/followers/{$user}.xml"; $tl = lists_paginatedd_process($request); $content = "&lt;h2&gt;FRIENDS&lt;/h2&gt;"; $content .= theme('notf', $tla); $content.="&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr&gt;"; $content .= "&lt;h2&gt;FOLLOWERS&lt;/h2&gt;"; $content .= theme('notf', $tl); theme('page', 'Followers', $content); } function lists_paginatedd_process($url) { // Adds cursor/pagination parameters to a query $cursor = $_GET['cursor']; if (!is_numeric($cursor)) { $cursor = -1; } $url .= '?cursor='.$cursor; $xml = twitter_process($url); $ret = simplexml_load_string($xml) return $ret; } </code></pre> <p>Results - Following</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;users_list&gt; &lt;users type="array"&gt; &lt;user&gt; &lt;id&gt;66968592&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;DJ Swaggz &amp;#11013;click2fol&lt;/name&gt; &lt;screen_name&gt;DjSwaggz&lt;/screen_name&gt; &lt;/user&gt; &lt;user&gt; &lt;id&gt;288859268&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;tegan shanks&lt;/name&gt; &lt;screen_name&gt;teganxroshanks&lt;/screen_name&gt; &lt;/user&gt;&lt;/users_list&gt; </code></pre> <p>Results - Followers</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;users_list&gt; &lt;users type="array"&gt; &lt;user&gt; &lt;id&gt;66968592&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;DJ Swaggz &amp;#11013;click2fol&lt;/name&gt; &lt;screen_name&gt;DjSwaggz&lt;/screen_name&gt; &lt;/user&gt; &lt;/user&gt;&lt;/users_list&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want this guy to display (The one that's not following back)</p> <pre><code> &lt;user&gt; &lt;id&gt;288859268&lt;/id&gt; &lt;name&gt;tegan shanks&lt;/name&gt; &lt;screen_name&gt;teganxroshanks&lt;/screen_name&gt; &lt;/user&gt; </code></pre>
 

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