Addition to php twitter status script

Question

I'm using the script below to display my twitter status, but would like to add the option to not display tweets that start with a @username. I've done it so it won't display my username, but would like not to display tweets replied to another user.

Thanks

$doc = new DOMDocument();
# load the RSS
if($doc->load('twitterurlrss')) {
    # number of tweets to display.  20 is the maximum $max_tweets = 3;    
    $i = 1;
    foreach($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
        # fetch the title from the RSS feed
        $tweet = $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        $date = $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        $link = $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue;
        # the title of each tweet starts with "username: " which I want to remove
        $tweet = substr($tweet, stripos($tweet, ':') + 1);
        $date = date("dS F Y", strtotime($date));  
        # Turn URLs into links
        $tweet = preg_replace('@(https?://([-\w\.]+)+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.]*(\?\S+)?)?)?)@',  '<a href="$1">$1</a>', $tweet);
        # Turn @replies into links
        $tweet = preg_replace("/@([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/", "<a href=\"twitterurl/$1\">@$1</a>", $tweet);
        # Turn & into &amp;
        $tweet = preg_replace('@&@',  '&amp;', $tweet);
        if($i%2 == 0) {
            echo "<div class=\"three-col center\"><p>" . $tweet . "<br /><span class=\"quiet\"><ahref=\"" . $link . "\">". $date . "</a></span></p></div>\n";
        } else {
            echo "<div class=\"three-col\"><p>" . $tweet . "<br /><span class=\"quiet\"><ahref=\"" . $link . "\">" . $date . "</a></span></p></div>\n";
        }
        if($i++ >= $max_tweets)
            break;
    }
}

(I've tried to disguise the hyperlinks as unable to post more then one)

Answer 1

Sounds like you want to add a condition like this:

if(preg_match('/^\s*@([0-9a-zA-Z]+)/', $tweet))
    continue;

after $tweet = substr($tweet, stripos($tweet, ':') + 1);.

Answer 2

if(preg_match('/(|\s)@([0-9a-zA-Z]{3,})/', $tweet))
    continue;

A more complete match. The other will match incorrectly in some cases.