shows tweets via 1.1 API
function showtweets($amount, $api_user, $api_key, $api_secret) {
// usage: showtweets(3, 'flurinduerst', 'QIhs6TxhgiiMTu4Xt1ThZey9t', 'JWAObMVG2XLO4zlPZAOcX36m0lWO34e8uq4YzKWPo08M2M8c4n')
// CONFIG
// get account data
$username = $api_user;
$key = $api_key;
$secret = $api_secret;
$quest = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=".urlencode($username);
$tokenUrl = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token";
// create auth key
$auth = base64_encode(urlencode($key).':'.urlencode($secret));
// GET TOKEN
// send request to torkenUrl
$getToken = curl_init();
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_URL, $tokenUrl);
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: Basic ' . $auth));
// get BearerToken
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "grant_type=client_credentials");
curl_setopt($getToken, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// extract BearerToken
$token = json_decode(curl_exec($getToken));
$token = $token->access_token;
curl_close($getToken);
// GET TWEETS
// send request to torkenUrl using BearerToken
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $quest);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: Bearer ' . $token));
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$output = json_decode($result);
$avatar_url = $output[0]->user->profile_image_url;
// OUTPUT
if (is_array($output) && count($output) > 0) :
$i = 1;
foreach($output as $tweet) : ?>
<p <?= ($i == 1 ? 'class="first"' : ''); ?>>
<img src="<?= $avatar_url ?>">
<?= $tweet->text; ?>
<br>
<time datetime="<?= $tweet->created_at; ?>"><?= date('d. F H:i', strtotime($tweet->created_at)); ?> Uhr</time>
</p>
<? if(++$i > $amount) break;
endforeach;
endif;
}