Twitter Tweet Parser

[b]Introduction[/b]

Twitter Apps are all the rage these days. When displaying a tweet, there is actually a lot of information that comes back from twitter's servers, and It's always plain text. This helper simply parses the tweet, and converts the plain-text into marked up embedable code. [code]

if (!function_exists('parse_tweet')) { function parse_tweet($tweet) { $search = array('|(http://[^ ]+)|', '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])@([a-z0-9_]+)/i', '/(^|[^a-z0-9_])#([a-z0-9_]+)/i'); $replace = array('$1', '$1@$2', '$1#$2'); $tweet = preg_replace($search, $replace, $tweet);

        return $tweet;
    }
} 

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[b]Usage[/b]

Simply pass this helper a tweet, and it returns the text with hyperlinks embedded.

[code] $parsed_tweet = parse_tweet($tweet_text); [/code]