Auto-Playlist Publishing From Twitter Scraps

I recently started using Twitter, by proxy through Ivory Tower using an Articles publication type. But I only send Twitter the status update, whereas on Ivory Tower I publish my status as well as my mood and what I am listening to (both optional).

So I got the crazy idea to scrape the Ivory Tower status updates for an archive of what I was listening to. This would, essentially, be my playlist...

I thought that I would be able to complete the task in about 10 minutes by making a new base module template and calling the Articles API in it for a list of  the entries that I wanted, then loop through them and output in the middle.

Another reason that I was doing this is because it seemed so stupidly simple that there was no reason that it should not exist on the site, so I set out to try and find one.

I failed. It really was stupidly simple, taking one new template file with four lines of uncomplicated template tags. I spent more time adding design than getting the data on the page. And it really did only take about 10 minutes to figure out and implement.

RTFA to see the template. Click here to see the Playlist!

<xar:set name="articles">xarModAPIFunc('articles','user','getall',
array('ptid'=>19, 'where'=>"body ne ''"))</xar:set>
<xar:foreach in="$articles" value="$article">
#$article['body']#
</xar:foreach>

Just put the above into [yourtheme]/modules/base/user-main-userlist.xt. It really is that simple. You ask Articles for all items of that pubtype that have data, loop through it and output in the middle.

I <3 working with Xaraya...