Tom, We do not allow HTML in tweets. Only plain text. Any links sent will be automatically linked on Twitter.com but it is up to third-party clients to handle any linking within their application.
Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Stuart <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/7/13 Tom <[email protected]>: > > > > I'm kinda new to php and have no clue how to do this, but how would I > > make links from the description field clickable? I know I need to add > > <a href="link here"> text </a> but how do i go about doing it, below > > is the coding I'm using currently. > > > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > > > <?php > > $username = "RuneTweeter"; > > $rssUrl = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$username.rss? > > count=5"; > > $rss = @file_get_contents($rssUrl); > > > > if($rss){ > > $xml = @simplexml_load_string($rss); > > if($xml !== false){ > > > > foreach($xml->channel->item as $tweet){ > > > > echo substr($tweet->pubDate,0, -6)."<br />"; > > echo substr($tweet->description,13)."<br />"; > > echo "<a href=\"{$tweet->link}\">{$tweet->link}</a><br /><br />"; > > > > } > > > > }else{ > > echo "Error: RSS file not valid!"; > > } > > }else{ > > echo "Error: RSS file not found. Username invalid or requires > > authentication"; > > } > > ?> > > http://stut.net/projects/twitter/htmlify_tweet.html > > -Stuart > > -- > http://stut.net/projects/twitter/ >
