jQuery - PHP & Ajax with the Twitter API

Posted: Nov/22/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: PHP - Others Views:124 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

So, in order for us to talk to the Twitter API, we need to use cURL. This isn't a hard and fast rule, but it sure does make our lives easier. The cURL library should be installed as part of your PHP installation, but do check.

cURL allows us to make a simple call to the Twitter API, and grab some results back if necessary. I'll be using XML to return results for this demo, but you can use JSON if you want. Anyway, without further ado, here is a nice piece of PHP code to talk to the Twitter Search API - so create a file called getSearch.php :

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