Hullo list
Like so many of those asking questions I'm new to PHP (in fact, new to
programming altogether - I'm a medical doctor in my "other" life). Some of
what I show below is very likely redundant, so any pointers (beyond the
question asked) would be most welcome
I'm really struggling in the use of multidimensional arrays:
1) I retrieve my timeline from the twitter api and put the json returned
into an array:
require 'tmhOAuth.php';
require 'tmhUtilities.php';
$tmhOAuth = new tmhOAuth(array(
'consumer_key' => 'X',
'consumer_secret' => 'X',
'user_token' => 'X',
'user_secret' => 'X',
));
$code = $tmhOAuth->request('GET', $tmhOAuth->url('1/statuses/home_timeline',
'json'));
$tableNews=json_decode($tmhOAuth->response['response'],true);
2) I then try to work with some elements of the returned data (just two for
now, but I ultimately want to display 3 or 4 of them in a table):
foreach($tableNews as $headline => $text){
$new_text = $text['text'];
echo "<br>";
echo "$new_text";
foreach ($text as $soucre => $description){
$new_description = $description['name'];
echo "<pre>";
echo "$new_description";
echo "</pre>";
}
}
3) Then, because I was getting some unexpected characters in that, I print
the whole array:
echo '<pre>';
print_r($tableNews);
echo '</pre>';
A sample of what I get back looks like this in the browser:
Tutu slams Miyeni column [url removed - list spam filter didn't like!]
9
T
S
w
Eyewitness News
Libyan rebels report town under siege [url removed]
9
L
S
<
SA Breaking News
And the corresponding output for the whole array is:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[retweet_count] => 0
[possibly_sensitive] =>
[geo] =>
[coordinates] =>
[in_reply_to_status_id] =>
[id_str] => 99811704753496065
[text] => Tutu slams Miyeni column [url removed]
[favorited] =>
[in_reply_to_status_id_str] =>
[created_at] => Sat Aug 06 11:58:59 +0000 2011
[in_reply_to_screen_name] =>
[in_reply_to_user_id] =>
[in_reply_to_user_id_str] =>
[contributors] =>
[retweeted] =>
[source] => web
[place] =>
[id] => 9.98117047535E+16
[user] => Array
(
[friends_count] => 4502
[protected] =>
[profile_image_url_https] => [url removed]
[screen_name] => ewnupdates
[default_profile_image] =>
[statuses_count] => 40956
[profile_text_color] => 333333
[location] => South Africa
[name] => Eyewitness News
[following] => 1
[favourites_count] => 1
[profile_sidebar_fill_color] => D2D7DC
[id_str] => 20433284
[is_translator] =>
[profile_background_tile] =>
[utc_offset] => 7200
[url] => http://www.ewn.co.za
[follow_request_sent] =>
[description] => - Eyewitness News. In touch. In
tune. Independent.
[verified] =>
[created_at] => Mon Feb 09 13:03:22 +0000 2009
[profile_link_color] => B40000
[notifications] =>
[profile_sidebar_border_color] => 686C66
[default_profile] =>
[time_zone] => Pretoria
[listed_count] => 439
[lang] => en
[profile_use_background_image] => 1
[show_all_inline_media] =>
[contributors_enabled] =>
[geo_enabled] =>
[profile_background_color] => FBFCFC
[followers_count] => 15318
[profile_image_url] => [url removed]
[id] => 20433284
[profile_background_image_url_https] => [url removed]
[profile_background_image_url] => [url removed]
)
[truncated] =>
)
[1] => Array
(
[retweet_count] => 0
[possibly_sensitive] =>
[geo] =>
[coordinates] =>
[in_reply_to_status_id] =>
[id_str] => 99811086940913664
[text] => Libyan rebels report town under siege [url removed]
[favorited] =>
[in_reply_to_status_id_str] =>
[created_at] => Sat Aug 06 11:56:32 +0000 2011
[in_reply_to_screen_name] =>
[in_reply_to_user_id] =>
[in_reply_to_user_id_str] =>
[contributors] =>
[retweeted] =>
[source] => [url removed]
[place] =>
[id] => 9.98110869409E+16
[user] => Array
(
[protected] =>
[screen_name] => sabreakingnews
[is_translator] =>
[profile_text_color] => 666666
[location] => South Africa
[name] => SA Breaking News
[follow_request_sent] =>
[following] =>
[favourites_count] => 0
[profile_sidebar_fill_color] => 252429
[id_str] => 34908698
[profile_background_tile] =>
[utc_offset] => -10800
[url] => [url removed]
[description] => All the latest breaking news from
across South Africa in one stream.
[verified] =>
[created_at] => Fri Apr 24 12:09:12 +0000 2009
[profile_link_color] => 2FC2EF
[listed_count] => 327
[notifications] =>
[profile_sidebar_border_color] => 181A1E
[default_profile] =>
[show_all_inline_media] =>
[contributors_enabled] =>
[geo_enabled] => 1
[time_zone] => Greenland
[lang] => en
[profile_use_background_image] => 1
[profile_background_image_url_https] => [url removed]
[friends_count] => 86
[profile_background_color] => 1A1B1F
[followers_count] => 9502
[profile_image_url_https] => [url removed]
[profile_image_url] => [url removed]
[id] => 34908698
[default_profile_image] =>
[statuses_count] => 35519
[profile_background_image_url] => [url removed]
)
[truncated] =>
)
I really have no idea at all where the 9, T, S, and W come from? Or how to
stop them from appearing.
And, of course, the source has a lot of <pre>,</pre>'s in it!
Kind regards
David
