Sams Teach Yourself the Twitter API in 24 Hours

Hour 9. Building a Simple Twitter Client, Part I

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to create a simple framework for our Twitter client

• How to put tabs in HTML

• How to support parameters in your framework

Expanding the Index File to Support Tabs

First, we need to add a few tabs to our index.php file so that we can select between reading home_timeline, mentions, and our direct messages. So, let’s create a new file called header.inc, and we will put it in the includes folder. By the way, it is not necessary to label header.inc with a .inc extension. This is a convention used by this Author.

To know what page the user wants, we passed that page identifier in the URL link and picked it up using the $_GET command:

<? $page = $_GET['page']; ...