Comments on: Create Custom Twitter Feed Widget using PHP

By: Milan Svehla

Milan Svehla — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 16:15:47 +0000

Thanks Dave for advice with images. You can then echo the images for each tweet like this:

if (isset($result->entities->media)) {
    foreach ($result->entities->media as $media) {
        $media_url = $media->media_url; // Or $media->media_url_https for the SSL version.
    }
}

By: dave

dave — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:43:56 +0000

just to follow up, images come through ok if you add these two parameters: ‘include_entities’ => true and ‘tweet_mode’ => ‘extended’, and change “$latestTweet = $tweet->text;” to “full_text”.

i’ve realized the images i was referring to are the “summary cards” that twitter transforms the included URL into, with the thumbnail, title, and description from the linked website.

any idea how to create the cards for the link? instead of just altering the URL into an anchor tag?

By: dave

dave — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:15:21 +0000

Hello, great resource here, works well, easy to configure and adapt,
however it doesn’t show images from tweets,
I looked through the data that is returned and I don’t see the image URLs in the ‘twitterData’ object.
Is there a trick to retrieving the tweet images?
thank you.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 18:40:40 +0000

Hi! Super script!
One question. How can I add pictures from tweets to this script?

Thank you!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:08:51 +0000

Nevermind. Figured it out.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:06:48 +0000

Is there any way to exclude retweets in this?