First I must say I am not really experienced with php and making blocks but here goes anyways.I am putoff by the whole make a buck on Twitter trend.I am trying to create a w=125 x h=250 block that shows my community leaders latest Twitter posts.Just the lastest.I want to host the background image in my database.Is this so hard? I dont want to create a buisiness.Just show the top ten leaders in the community.I see blocks with ads but yuk to them.If I can get thre right php maybe I can do the css and figure out how to link the backgrond image.Or maybe I am missing a piece of the puzzle as to why noone wants to give this away.the php I am using is

$feedUrl = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15268838.rss';
$yourTwitterUrl = 'http://www.twitter.com/ibleedv20';
$disableUtf8 = false;
// ********************************************************

require XOOPS_ROOT_PATH.'/class/snoopy.php';

$snoopyDog = new Snoopy();
$snoopyDog->fetch($feedUrl);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($snoopyDog->results);
if($xml !== false) {
$elements = array('title', 'description', 'pubDate', 'guid', 'link');
echo "<ul>";
foreach($xml->channel->item as $item) {
foreach($elements as $element) {
$$element = $disableUtf8 ? utf8_decode($item->$element) : $item->$element;
}
$date = formatTimestamp(strtotime($pubDate), 's');
echo "<li><a href='".$link."' target='_blank'>".$date.' - '.strip_tags($title)."</a></li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
echo "<br /><a href='".$yourTwitterUrl."'>Follow us on Twitter</a>";
}

I am not a very good coder but this seems to work on my test server. php5 only



Enter into a custom block set to phpscript.

Hi
Your code it works, maybe yo need to reduce lenght title, you may put it on DIV with Background image.

Another thing. I use twitterjs for custom block engine that is more fast

[1]http://code.google.com/p/twitterjs/

That code gives me a white page.I am using 2.3.3

That's odd. Works here on WAMP local, XOOPS 2.3.3 and php 5.2.

The custom block was set to php script?

Yes double checked and gives white page for me anywhere I put it including previewing it.Set to php script and double checked copy and paste.

PS.I appreciate these replies and you are helping a soul self educate.

May be the easiest :
http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_profile

I believe twitter's feed is just another rss feed. You should be able to use any news feed module from the repository. It would be just a matter of styling it. I created a feed module a few months ago just to see what it would like to pull in my twitter feed that I never use... as well as CNN feeds and my wife's gallery feed so I could put my daughter's gallery onto my page. I'd say check out some of the news feed modules and custom style them.

By the way I don't quite understand your title... Are you saying people are wanting to charge you for creating a custom twitter module? If that's the case, they may be charging you because they value their time.

TCnet's code doesn't work for me.

Does anyone know how to limit Herve's code to show only eg. 5 feeds?

Tnx

With 5 feeds you mean 5 tweets? It's under preferences, or do you mean something completely different?