Need Help with Coding Line Spaces

lifemisled · 05-06-2009, 10:57 PM

Good Evening All,

I am trying to properly code my twitter posts into my webpage. The idea is to give users a way to reach me on a more personal level. I have changed all the meaninful values a novice could. I have much more knowledge with html and none whatsoever with php.

When I set the value for multiple twitters to display, all of the messages are jumbled into one long string of sentences. I need a way to separate one display from the next.

I would appreciate any input from the more experienced coders.

Thank you!

Here is the PHP code I am using. Currently I have set the value to one to prevent the aforementioned jumbling:

Code:

<?php

function get_twitterRSS() {
	$rss_url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/******.rss';
  $home_url = 'http://twitter.com/*****';
  // NOTE: this isn't _really_ your username, it's whatever shows up before
  // the colon before your twitters (for me it's "Michael Malone", my real name)
	$username = "*****";
  // Number of twitters to display
	$num_items = 1;
  // HTML or text to display before and after each twitter
	$before = "";
	$after = "";
  // If false, twitters will link back to their respective pages on twitter.com
	$hide_links = true;
  // If true your username (above) will be stripped from each twitter
	$hide_username = true;
  // If true, your twitters will be trimmed to the length in trim_count below
  $trim = true;
  $trim_count = 160;
  // Trimmed twitters will have this string appended to them
  $trim_marker = '..&raquo;';
  // If true, the trim marker will link back to the twitter 
  $trim_link = true;
  // Replace urls (http://<something>) with links to that URL
  $url_replace = true;
  // Replace username in @replies with a link to that user's twitter page
  $reply_replace = true;

  $url_regex = '{
        \b
        # Match the leading part (proto://hostname, or just hostname)
        (
          # ftp://, http://, or https:// leading part
          (http)://[-\w]+(\.\w[-\w]*)+
        |
          # or, try to find a hostname with more specific sub-expression
          (?i: [a-z0-9] (?:[-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? \. )+ # sub domains
          # Now ending .com, etc. For these, require lowercase
          (?-i: com\b
              | edu\b
              | biz\b
              | gov\b
              | in(?:t|fo)\b # .int or .info
              | mil\b
              | net\b
              | org\b
              | [a-z][a-z]\.[a-z][a-z]\b # two-letter country code
          )
        )

        # Allow an optional port number
        ( : \d+ )?

        # The rest of the URL is optional, and begins with /
        (
          /
          # The rest are heuristics for what seems to work well
          [^.!,?;"\'<>()\[\]\{\}\s\x7F-\xFF]*
          (
            [.!,?]+ [^.!,?;"\'<>()\[\]\{\}\s\x7F-\xFF]+
          )*
        )?
      }ix';

	if (!function_exists('MagpieRSS')) { // Check if another plugin is using RSS, may not work
		include_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');
		error_reporting(E_ERROR);
	}

	# get rss file
	$rss = @fetch_rss($rss_url);

	if ($rss) {
    $descmatches = "";
    # specifies number of entries
		$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $num_items);
		$username = $username .": ";
		
	  # builds html from array
   	foreach ( $items as $item ) {
      $description = $item['description'];
     
      if ($hide_username) {
        $twitter = str_replace($username,'', $description);
      }
           
    $twitter = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($twitter));
	       
    if($trim) {
      $t = mb_strimwidth($twitter, 0, $trim_count - strlen(html_entity_decode($trim_marker)), '', 'UTF-8');

      // Trim last word, replace with trim marker...
      if($t != $twitter) {
        // Trim link only works if you're hiding your link
        if($trim_link && $hide_links) {
          $url = $item['link']; 
          $trim_marker = "<a href='$url'>$trim_marker</a>";
        }
        $t = preg_replace('/[\W\s]*\w*[\W\s]*$/', '', $t);
        $trimmed = true;
      }

      $twitter = $t;
    }

    // URL Replace only works if you're hiding your link
    if($url_replace && $hide_links) {
      $twitter = preg_replace($url_regex, '<a href="$0">$0</a>', $twitter); 
    }

    // Reply replace only works if you're hiding links
    if($reply_replace && $hide_links) {
      $twitter = preg_replace('!^@([^ ]+)!', '@<a href="http://twitter.com/$1">$1</a>', $twitter);
    }

    // Add the trim marker (couldn't add before b/c url_replace would do a double href)
    if($trimmed) {
      $twitter .= $trim_marker;
    }

      if (!$hide_links) { 
        $url = $item['link']; 
        print $before . "<a href=\"$url\" title=\"Permanent link\">$twitter</a>" . $after; 
      } else { 
        print $before . $twitter . $after; 
      }
    } // end foreach
  } else {
    #print "Something went wrong.";
  }
} # end get_twitterRSS() function
?>

Len Whistler · 05-07-2009, 05:25 AM

As far as I can tell you must enter a value into these two variables. <br> should do the trick, or for a line <hr>, or anything you want to separate the posts.

PHP Code:


			
 // HTML or text to display before and after each twitter
    $before = "";
    $after = "";

Those two variables are for the print statement in the foreach loop

PHP Code:


			
   print $before . "<a href=\"$url\" title=\"Permanent link\">$twitter</a>" . $after; 
      } else { 
        print $before . $twitter . $after;

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lifemisled · 05-07-2009, 11:46 AM

Problem solved. Simple but I would not have thought to enter line breaks in that space. I kept figuring putting words in there would look stupid.

Thank you for the help!