/**
* Purpose: create SimpleXML object from a file or from scratch
* @param string $path - file path to an xml file
* @param string $rootName - the name of the root element in the xml file
*/
public function __construct($path = null, $rootName = "root")
{
if (!empty($path)) {
$this->xmlFilePath = $path;
//if the file path is to an existing file -load the file
if (file_exists($path)) {
$this->rootNode = simplexml_load_file($path);
} else {
//if the file does not exist create a SimpleXml object
// from scratch
$this->rootNode = SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><' . $rootName . ' />');
}
}
}
<?php
$username = '******';
$twitter_status_url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/';
$reply = file_get_contents($twitter_status_url . $username . 'xml?count=3');
$xml = SimpleXMLElement($reply);
foreach ($xml->children() as $status) {
echo $status->text;
}
