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↓  Works with WordPress 2.0 > 2.2

Calling the Function

In my theme folder I have a file called functions.php that gets loaded when the theme is loaded. If your theme doesn’t have one you can create one. Copy and paste this function into the functions.php file. Now all you have to do is call the function in the theme template where you want your category links to show up.

<?php echo delimited_cat(); ?>

You can also pass the function an argument and change the default “, ” delimiter to anything you like. The example below would delimit by a pipe with spaces on both sides.

<?php echo delimited_cat(' | '); ?>

Uses this code at your own risk.

I wrote a script that uses the Twitter API to build a customizable twitter status badge. I’m pretty much a novice PHP programmer and this is the first piece of code I’m releasing. It should work fine on any PHP5 server. The script uses cURL to authenticate and grab the XML file from Twitter and then the XML is parsed using PHP5′s SimpleXML.

Enjoy Rik!

Requirements:

PHP5 (*** Will Not Work in PHP4 ***)
Twitter Account

Directions:

Edit the badge_config.php file, supply your twitter username, twitter password, and how many status items you would like to show up. I think the Twitter API only allows a maximum of 20 items, but I could be wrong. Upload all files to your server running PHP5, then in a web browser goto your_folder_name/badge_template.php. If it showed up your good to go.

Demo:

↓  My Twitter Badge

Download:

↓  twitterbadge.zip