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    <p>I'm trying to make a simple site that uses php and the Twitter API to write out my latest post from twitter. I found a tutorial showing me how to get my timeline (or last 20 posts) in xml format, but can't figure out how to print out <strong>just</strong> the latest post, and <strong>just</strong> the text of it (not the time, date, etc that come with the xml/rss/etc).</p> <p>My code looks like this</p> <pre><code>&lt;h2 id = "latest"&gt; &lt;?php var $username='myusername'; var $password='mypassword'; var $responseInfo=array(); function latest_status($format='json',$id=null) { $request = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.'.$format; if($id) { $postargs = "id=$id"; return $this-&gt;process($request,$postargs); } return $this-&gt;process($request); } echo latest_status("json"); ?&gt; &lt;/h2&gt; </code></pre> <p>And it's returning this:</p> <blockquote> <p>[{"contributors":null,"created_at":"Tue Feb 16 19:56:08 +0000 2010","in_reply_to_user_id":null,"source":"API","favorited":false,"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"truncated":false,"user":{"notifications":null,"profile_link_color":"0000ff","description":"","verified":false,"profile_background_tile":false,"created_at":"Tue Feb 16 01:16:15 +0000 2010","profile_background_color":"9ae4e8","profile_image_url":"<a href="http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/default_profile_1_normal.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/default_profile_1_normal.png</a>","time_zone":"Hawaii","profile_sidebar_fill_color":"e0ff92","followers_count":0,"screen_name":"whisperingweb","lang":"en","friends_count":0,"profile_sidebar_border_color":"87bc44","statuses_count":2,"following":null,"protected":false,"favourites_count":1,"location":"","name":"Chris Armstrong","contributors_enabled":false,"profile_text_color":"000000","id":114608397,"geo_enabled":true,"profile_background_image_url":"<a href="http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/themes/theme1/bg.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/themes/theme1/bg.png</a>","utc_offset":-36000,"url":null},"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"geo":null,"id":9199090048,"text":"Someone was on your website"},{"favorited":false,"source":"web","in_reply_to_user_id":null,"created_at":"Tue Feb 16 18:50:21 +0000 2010","geo":null,"user":{"verified":false,"description":"","notifications":false,"profile_text_color":"000000","screen_name":"whisperingweb","profile_background_image_url":"<a href="http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/themes/theme1/bg.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/themes/theme1/bg.png</a>","url":null,"profile_link_color":"0000ff","followers_count":0,"statuses_count":2,"profile_background_tile":false,"created_at":"Tue Feb 16 01:16:15 +0000 2010","friends_count":0,"profile_background_color":"9ae4e8","contributors_enabled":false,"time_zone":"Hawaii","favourites_count":0,"profile_sidebar_fill_color":"e0ff92","protected":false,"location":"","name":"Chris Armstrong","lang":"en","geo_enabled":true,"profile_sidebar_border_color":"87bc44","id":114608397,"following":false,"utc_offset":-36000,"profile_image_url":"<a href="http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/default_profile_1_normal.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://s.twimg.com/a/1265999168/images/default_profile_1_normal.png</a>"},"contributors":null,"in_reply_to_status_id":null,"id":9196705546,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"truncated":false,"text":"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"}]</p> </blockquote> <p>I'm pretty new to php, and completely new to the Twitter API, so would appreciate any help or advice.</p> <p><strong>edit: Have changed example from xml to json</strong></p>
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    1. COWhat is `$twitter` in your code? Do you use an already existing Twitter library to access it? What is `$this` referring to inside of the function (i.e. where is the rest of the class definition)? And what type is the output of that function (check with `var_dump`).
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    2. COAh yea, sorry. I'm using a library I got from here http://brandontreb.com/the-only-twitter-api-php-class-you-will-ever-need/, I just copied and pasted the bits I figured were relevant. Should I just correct my question by removing $twitter->, or would I be better showing the entire library as it is?
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