How to get Twitter Status with links

Found this gorgeous function to get the last Twitter Update from a user.

Features

• It prints the links inside the tweets.
• Also puts a link on a @user reply tweets

Code

function getTwitterStatus($userid,$x){
	$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$userid.xml?count=$x";
	
	$xml = simplexml_load_file($url) or die('could not connect');
		echo '<ul>';
		   foreach($xml->status as $status){
		   $text = twitterify( $status->text );
		   echo '<li>'.utf8_decode($text).'</li>';
		   }
		echo '</ul>';
	 }
	
	 function twitterify($ret) {
	  $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t< ]*)#", "\\1<a href=\"\\2\" >\\2", $ret);
	  $ret = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r< ]*)#", "\\1<a href=\"http://\\2\" >\\2", $ret);
	  $ret = preg_replace("/@(\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/\\1\" >@\\1</a>", $ret);
	  $ret = preg_replace("/#(\w+)/", "<a href=\"http://search.twitter.com/search?q=\\1\" >#\\1</a>", $ret);
	return $ret;
	}

// Now let's print the Tweets.
// Put your own username.
// Set the number of tweets.
print_r(getTwitterStatus('quicoto_dev', 1));
Code language: PHP (php)