twicon

Get Twitter User Icon Image URL library written in PHP.

You can work around API limitation get the image URL via the API, because it caches to memcached.

Usage

redirect directly

$twicon = new Twicon();
$twicon->out($twitterId, $size);

example

embed url in image source

$twicon = new Twicon();
$src = $twicon->getIconUrl($id, $size);
echo '<img src="' . $src . '" alt="" />';

example

Twicon

Twicon::out

void Twicon:out ( int $id [,int $size = 0 ] )

Reedirect pure Twitter icon URL directly.

If referer page is SSL, redirect SSL icon url.

Parameters

• id

  Twitter User ID

• size

  0: original 1: mini 2: normal 3: bigger

Return Values

Returns none on success or dummy gif binary on failure.

Twicon::getIconUrl

mixed Twicon::getIconUrl ( int $id [,int $size = 0 [, bool $sslFlg = false ]] )

Returns Twitter icon URL string.

Parameters

• id

  Twitter user ID

• size

  0: original 1: mini 2: normal 3: bigger

• sslFlg

  If you specify true, returns ssl url.

Return Values

Returns Twitter icon URL on success or FALSE on failure.

Twicon::getMemcachedStatus

bool Twicon::getMemcachedStatus ()

Returns connect memcached server status.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Configuration

config/memcached.ini is optional memcached settings file(If it's none, using default settings).

You need to write settings in memcached section.

• host

  memcached server host

• port

  memcached server port

• cache_expire_sec

  cache expire(second)

• cache_prefix

  data key prefix

Dependent Library / Module

• memecached
• Memcache (PHP extension)

Tests

The tests can be executed by using this command from the base directory.

phpunit --stderr --bootstrap tests/bootstrap.php tests/tests.php

Licence

Copyright (c) 2012 Hiroki Tanaka

The MIT License (MIT) http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT