function twitter_fetch_account_info in Twitter 6.2

Fetch the full information for a Twitter.com account.

This function requires an authenticated connection for the account in question.

Parameters

$screen_name: The screen name of a Twitter.com user.

$password: The password of a Twitter.com user.

$cache: A boolean indicating whether the account info should be cached in the local site's database after it's retrieved.

Return value

An single Twitter account.

2 calls to twitter_fetch_account_info()

twitter_add_account_submit in ./twitter.pages.inc

twitter_user_save in ./twitter.inc

File

./twitter.inc, line 187

A wrapper API for the Twitter microblogging service.

Code

function twitter_fetch_account_info($screen_name, $password, $cache = TRUE) {
  $url = "http://" . variable_get('twitter_api_url', 'twitter.com') . "/users/show/{$screen_name}.xml";
  $headers = array(
    'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . base64_encode($screen_name . ':' . $password),
    'Content-type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
  );
  $results = drupal_http_request($url, $headers, 'GET');
  if (_twitter_request_failure($results)) {
    return array();
  }
  if ($results = _twitter_convert_xml_to_array($results->data)) {
    if ($cache) {
      foreach ($results as $user) {
        twitter_cache_account($user);
      }
    }
    return $results[0];
  }
  return array();
}