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Pulling recent hashtags from twitter

This code pulls a json of a hashtag search from twitter. It runs some functions to add to a database. (functions not included.) 

global $total, $hashtag;

$hashtag = '#somehashtag';
$total = 0;

function getTweets($hash_tag, $page) {
	global $total, $hashtag;
	$url = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q='.urlencode($hash_tag).'&';
	$url .= 'page='.$page;    
	$ch = curl_init($url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
	$json = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);
	
	$json_decode = json_decode($json);
	
	$json_output = json_decode($json,true);
	
	for($c=0;$c<=count($json_decode->results);$c++){
		if(isset($json_output['results'][$c]['id_str'])){
			if(!tweet_exists($json_output['results'][$c]['id_str'])){
				add_tweet($json_output['results'][$c]['id_str'],
						  $json_output['results'][$c]['from_user'],
						  $json_output['results'][$c]['created_at'],
						  $json_output['results'][$c]['profile_image_url'],
						  $json_output['results'][$c]['text']);
			}
		}
	}
	
	if($json_decode->next_page){
		$temp = explode("&",$json_decode->next_page);        
		$p = explode("=",$temp[0]);                
		getTweets($hashtag,$p[1]);
	}        
}
Posted By Shane Jones

Shane Jones has been working in the on-line space since 2005 in various roles. From Web Development to SEO and Social Media; Shane now finds himself back in Web Development as the Head of Social Tech at mycleveragency in Manchester. The views expressed in Shane's posts are his own and are not necessarily the views of his employer.

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