Twitter::loadUserInfo PHP Method

loadUserInfo() public method

Returns information of a given user.
public loadUserInfo ( $username ) : stdClass
return stdClass see https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/users/show
    public function loadUserInfo($username)
    {
        return $this->cachedRequest('users/show', ['screen_name' => $username]);
    }

Usage Example

Example #1
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function replaceShortUrls($text, $urls = [])
{
    foreach ($urls as $url) {
        $link = '<a href="' . $url->expanded_url . '" target="_blank">' . $url->display_url . '</a>';
        $text = str_replace($url->url, $link, $text);
    }
    return $text;
}
$twitter = new Twitter($consumerKey, $consumerSecret, $accessToken, $accessTokenSecret);
$speakersFile = __DIR__ . '/_data/speakers.yml';
$speakers = Yaml::parse(file_get_contents($speakersFile));
foreach ($speakers as $key => $speaker) {
    if (isset($speaker['twitter'])) {
        $username = $speaker['twitter'];
        echo 'Updating ' . $username . "'s profile ...\n";
        $info = $twitter->loadUserInfo($username);
        $profileImage = file_get_contents($info->profile_image_url);
        $pathinfo = pathinfo($info->profile_image_url);
        $newProfileImageName = '/images/speakers/' . $username . '-' . $pathinfo['basename'];
        file_put_contents('.' . $newProfileImageName, $profileImage);
        $speakers[$key]['image'] = $newProfileImageName;
        if (isset($info->description)) {
            $speakers[$key]['about'] = replaceShortUrls($info->description, $info->entities->description->urls);
        }
        if (isset($info->url)) {
            $speakers[$key]['url'] = replaceShortUrls($info->url, $info->entities->url->urls);
        }
    }
}
usort($speakers, function ($a, $b) {
    return strcmp($a['_id'], $b['_id']);