Getting Twitter followers with JSON in PHP? - php

Question

I can get Tweets of users quite easily using PHP and JSON, but as soon as I use it to get a list of followers, I get errors. Both use JSON to return the values.
The code is:
$jsonurl = "https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=mooinooicat";
$contents = file_get_contents($jsonurl);
$results = json_decode($contents, true);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($results);
echo "</pre>";
This gives me the following array:
Array
(
[next_cursor] => 0
[ids] => Array
(
[0] => 31085924
[1] => 53633023
[2] => 18263583
)
[previous_cursor] => 0
[next_cursor_str] => 0
[previous_cursor_str] => 0
)
How do I get the values of next_cursor and previous_cursor and how do I loop just through the ids array?
I want to parse the results for reading into a database.

Answer 1

you are not using the correct api try something like this
function fetch_twitter_count($user) {
if ($json = file_get_contents("http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=$user")) {
if(empty($json)) return 0;
$json = json_decode($json['body'], true);
return number_format(intval($json['followers_count']));
}
return 'API Error';
}
have not tested but should do what you want however keep inmind that you will want to use some sort of caching

Answer 2

Thanks for all the answers without examples...
I finally managed to figure it out using the example from Getting values from a single array
Here is the code:
foreach ( $results as $result ) {
if ( is_array( $result ) ) {
foreach ( $result as $sub_result ) {
// You can store this value in a variable, or output it in your desired format.
echo $sub_result . "<br />";
}
} else {
echo $result . "<br />";
}
}