function twitter_fetch_statuses in Twitter 6.2

Fetch the latest statuses for a Twitter.com account, regardless of privacy.

This function is the authenticated version of twitter_fetch_timeline(), and is the only way to retrieve statuses for a 'private' account.

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 statuses should be cached in the local site's database after they're retrieved.

Return value

An array of Twitter statuses.

See also

twitter_fetch_timeline()

2 calls to twitter_fetch_statuses()

twitter_cron in ./twitter.module

Implementation of hook_cron()

twitter_user_save in ./twitter.inc

File

./twitter.inc, line 226

A wrapper API for the Twitter microblogging service.

Code

function twitter_fetch_statuses($screen_name, $password, $cache = TRUE) {
  $url = "http://" . variable_get('twitter_api_url', 'twitter.com') . "/statuses/user_timeline.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();
  }
  $results = _twitter_convert_xml_to_array($results->data);
  if ($cache && !empty($results)) {
    foreach ($results as $status) {
      twitter_cache_status($status);
    }
    twitter_touch_account($screen_name);
  }
  return $results;
}