I created this in photoshop, thought I should share it with the world. Use it for whatever you like, but credit me when using it; link to this site…

And please comment if some of the code should be changed for better appearance. I can see that the divs don’t float the way they should. I will check this later.

UPDATE: works now in IE. The reason it didn’t work was that document.getElementsByName() isn’t working in IE (at least IE7). I found a fix and implemented it.

<a href=”http://www.twitter.com/pan100lion”>

<?php
$twitterDOM = new DOMDocument();
$twitterDOM->encoding = ‘UTF-8′;
$twitterDOM->load(”http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/37750230.rss”);

$xslt= new DOMDocument();
$xslt->encoding = ‘UTF-8′;
$xslt->load(”twitterstub.xsl”);

$processor = new XSLTProcessor();
$processor->importStylesheet($xslt);
$output = $processor->transformToDoc($twitterDOM);
echo $output->saveXML();
?>
</a>

Swap the link on the line $twitterDOM->load with your own feed adress. You’ll find it at your twitter page.

File number 2 is called twitterstub.xsl:

<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet  [
<!ENTITY nbsp   "&#160;">
<!ENTITY copy   "&#169;">
<!ENTITY reg    "&#174;">
<!ENTITY trade  "&#8482;">
<!ENTITY mdash  "&#8212;">
<!ENTITY ldquo  "&#8220;">
<!ENTITY rdquo  "&#8221;">
<!ENTITY pound  "&#163;">
<!ENTITY yen    "&#165;">
<!ENTITY euro   "&#8364;">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”
xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”
version=”1.0″ >

<xsl:output method=”html”
media-type=”text/html”
doctype-public=”-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
doctype-system=”http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”
indent=”yes”
encoding=”UTF-8″ />
<xsl:template match=”/”>
<xsl:for-each select=”rss/channel/item”>
<xsl:if test=”position() &lt; 2″>
<p><xsl:if test=”position() = 1″>
<xsl:attribute name=”style”>font-weight:bold; font-size:10px</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select=”title” />
<i>
(<xsl:value-of select=”pubDate” />)
</i>
</p>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

this is a stylesheet with info on how to parse the file. It is programmed to only take the first one, but it can be altered to take several posts if you know some xsl. Read more about xslt here.

Oh yeah, and you need to include the twitter.php file where you want it to appear. Like this: <?php include(’twitter.php’) ?>

The theme I use is Prosense, and I read about it here.

When I started working for Kyber now in April, they introduced me to PSPad, as an alternative to the relatively expensive Dreamweaver. It turned out to work great (I have used it for classic asp coding and not for php though) for web development coding! It has a built-in ftp client, this is actually important, and it allows code completion. The only thing I could wish for now, was an advanced SQL database administration panel so that I could edit the DB and the site files in the same application. Now, I remote the IIS server and edit the database directly there by using the MS tool (I don’t remember what it’s called right now).

I have the feeling Eclipse can be tweaked for my needs, if anyone out there knows about a distro including the features I have discussed, please leave a comment to this post. But, for now, still looking for that perfect tool of my dreams – the tool to fall in love with, I can easily recommend trying PSPad. I tried JEdit too, but found it didn’t support drag and drop of files from Explorer in Windows.

More to come on this one – I am planning on building a web site from scratch in pspad. Keep reading the blog!