How to format Serialized Zend_Service_Twitter response - zend-framework

Question

When I use OAuth to connect an application to a twitter account I put the access token and the user data in my database as follow:
$this->consumer = new Zend_Oauth_Consumer($this->configTwitter);
if(!empty($_GET) && isset($_SESSION['TWITTER_REQUEST_TOKEN']))
{
$token = $this->consumer->getAccessToken($_GET, unserialize($_SESSION['TWITTER_REQUEST_TOKEN']));
// Get user info
$twitter = new Zend_Service_Twitter(array(
'username' => $token->screen_name,
'accessToken' => $token,
'callbackUrl' => $this->_getParam('SettingsWebsiteUrl').'/news/index/connecttwitter',
'consumerKey' => 'XXXXXX',
'consumerSecret' => 'XXXXXXX'
));
$response = $twitter->account->verifyCredentials();
// place in database
$this->NewsService->TokenSocialMedia(
$token,
'twitter',
serialize($response)
);
$_SESSION['TWITTER_REQUEST_TOKEN'] = null;
$this->_helper->flashMessenger(array('message' => $this->view->translate('The CMS is successfully connected to your twitter account'), 'status' => 'success'));
$this->_helper->redirector('settings', 'index');
}
else
{
$token = $this->consumer->getRequestToken();
$_SESSION['TWITTER_REQUEST_TOKEN'] = serialize($token);
$this->consumer->redirect();
}
This works fine. The response looks like this below and I have no clue of how to format this and display it to the user. Only thing I want is to store the twitter id, twitter name (not screen_name) and the image url.
O:23:"Zend_Rest_Client_Result":2:{s:8:"�*�_sxml";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":34:{s:2:"id";s:9:"150638034";s:4:"name";s:20:"De Graaf & Partners ";s:11:"screen_name";s:15:"GraafenPartners";s:8:"location";s:9:"Culemborg";s:11:"description";s:34:"Full service communications agency";s:17:"profile_image_url";s:78:"http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1191111069/Logo_DG_P-CMYK_Square_normal.jpg";s:3:"url";s:31:"http://www.degraafenpartners.nl";s:9:"protected";s:5:"false";s:15:"followers_count";s:1:"0";s:24:"profile_background_color";s:6:"C0DEED";s:18:"profile_text_color";s:6:"333333";s:18:"profile_link_color";s:6:"0084B4";s:26:"profile_sidebar_fill_color";s:6:"DDEEF6";s:28:"profile_sidebar_border_color";s:6:"C0DEED";s:13:"friends_count";s:1:"0";s:10:"created_at";s:30:"Tue Jun 01 12:47:51 +0000 2010";s:16:"favourites_count";s:1:"0";s:10:"utc_offset";s:4:"3600";s:9:"time_zone";s:9:"Amsterdam";s:28:"profile_background_image_url";s:60:"http://a3.twimg.com/a/1296525272/images/themes/theme1/bg.png";s:23:"profile_background_tile";s:5:"false";s:28:"profile_use_background_image";s:4:"true";s:13:"notifications";s:5:"false";s:11:"geo_enabled";s:4:"true";s:8:"verified";s:5:"false";s:9:"following";s:5:"false";s:14:"statuses_count";s:1:"6";s:4:"lang";s:2:"en";s:20:"contributors_enabled";s:5:"false";s:19:"follow_request_sent";s:5:"false";s:12:"listed_count";s:1:"0";s:21:"show_all_inline_media";s:5:"false";s:13:"is_translator";s:5:"false";s:6:"status";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":15:{s:10:"created_at";s:30:"Mon Jan 03 08:41:11 +0000 2011";s:2:"id";s:17:"21848534684794880";s:4:"text";s:53:"De Graaf & Partners wenst iedereen een creatief 2011!";s:6:"source";s:3:"web";s:9:"truncated";s:5:"false";s:9:"favorited";s:5:"false";s:21:"in_reply_to_status_id";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}s:19:"in_reply_to_user_id";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}s:23:"in_reply_to_screen_name";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}s:13:"retweet_count";s:1:"0";s:9:"retweeted";s:5:"false";s:3:"geo";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}s:11:"coordinates";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}s:5:"place";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}s:12:"contributors";O:16:"SimpleXMLElement":0:{}}}s:10:"�*�_errstr";N;}
How do I need to format the data, or how can I store the data better?

Answer 1

If all you want to store is their image url, then you just need their username, then use this:
http://img.tweetimag.es/i/oprah_o
where oprah_o is the username.
You don't need to use OAuth and Zend_Service_Twitter to do that. If you want to be able to get data from a non public feed, or publish tweets to their accounts, that's where you need Zend_Service_Twitter.
If you want to get data from that resultset, just do:
$result_obj = unserialize($token);