Parse feed and write to file.

Hello all... I've something of a problem. For the life of me, I've been horribly unable to parse a twitter feed into something *writable to a text file.* There is tons of code out there to fetch the feed, replace the funky symbols etc etc, but I cannot figure out how to turn the screen display into a writable-to-text using fwrite() array or whatever.

Essentially, I can't figure out how to turn:

<a href="http://twitter.com/">web</a>   sicsemperhomo (Theodore)  http://twitter.com/sicsemperhomo     tag:search.twitter.com,2005:1221756053  2009-02-18T04:50:07Z   He had it coming.  2009-02-18T04:50:07Z   <a href="http://twitter.com/">web</a>   sicsemperhomo (Theodore)  http://twitter.com/sicsemperhomo     tag:search.twitter.com,2005:1221753403  2009-02-18T04:49:03Z   <a href="http://twitter.com/emilyc808">@emilyc808</a> So, dah-ling, I hear that you didn't recognize me in my picture behind a glass door with a flash obscuring my face.  2009-02-18T04:49:03Z   <a href="http://twitter.com/">web</a>   sicsemperhomo (Theodore)  http://twitter.com/sicsemperhomo     tag:search.twitter.com,2005:1214279357  2009-02-16T04:16:54Z   I wonder why _Brothers &amp; Sisters_ starting using the _Angels in America_ oboe motif.  ......... etc etc

Code (markup):

INTO

# He had it coming.
# @emilyc808 So, dah-ling, I hear that you didn't recognize me in my picture behind a glass door with a flash obscuring my face.
# I wonder why _Brothers & Sisters_ starting using the _Angels in America_ oboe motif.
# I wish I could find someone who knows twitter api to help me out with a project... any takers?
# Blue sunlight is the product of IKEA curtains and mimosas. Woof.

And write it to a text file.

Thanks so much. It's driving me absolutely crazy. Here's the code I'm working with, and it's writing the WHOLE xml garbage into the file:

<?php 

// Define username and how much to pull; cleanup output with li

$username = "sicsemperhomo"; 
$limit = "15"; 
$prefix = "<ul>";
$suffix = "</ul>";
$pretweet = "<li>";
$posttweet = "</li>";

$feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . " . $limit . ";

function parse_feed($feed, $prefix, $pretweet, $posttweet, $suffix) {

//Beautify.

$feed = str_replace("&lt;", "<", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("&amp;", "&", $feed);
$feed = str_replace("&quot;", "\"", $feed);

//Create a clean version of the code in html and overwrite the $feed string telling it to use cont... as the dynamite.
$clean = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);

//Establish the number of times the php should loop by counting the number of clean lines minus 1.
$amount = count($clean) - 1;

echo $prefix;

//Looptastic magic

for ($i = 1; $i <= $amount; $i++) {


$cleaner = explode("</content>", $clean[$i]);
echo $pretweet;
echo $cleaner[0];
echo $posttweet;

}

echo $suffix;

}

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($feed);
echo $twitterFeed;

parse_feed($twitterFeed, $prefix, $pretweet, $posttweet, $suffix);

$codex = "RecentTwitters.txt";
 
$codexhandle = fopen($codex, 'a') or die("Cannot perform up to standard. I need the attention of a webcoder.");

fwrite($codexhandle, $twitterFeed);

fclose($codexhandle);

echo "<br /> <br />D.V. 'Tis done."; ?>

Code (markup):

Danke.

 

load the file into a simplexml object:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-load-file.php

Then loop through the contents - see the example by "aero" to loop through recursively and change the "print" line to do what you need ... :

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-children.php