Twitget Change Proposal

--- twitget.php 2013-05-27 18:27:32.000000000 -0400
+++ twitget_proposed.php    2013-06-13 10:58:44.000000000 -0400
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
        'last_access' => time(),
        'time_limit' => 5,
        'number_of_tweets' => 5,
+       'tweet_max_length' => 0,
        'show_avatar' => true,
        'time_format' => 'D jS M y H:i',
        'show_powered_by' => false,
@@ -131,7 +132,10 @@

    // Shortcode function
    function twitget_shortcode_handler($attributes, $content = null) {
-       return show_recent_tweets();
+       // show_recent_tweets() echo's, but we need to return a string
+       ob_start();
+       show_recent_tweets();
+       return ob_get_clean();
    }

    function twitter_status_11() {
@@ -261,6 +265,10 @@
            $tweet_date_array = array();
            foreach($tweets as $tweet) {
                $tweet_text = $tweet['text'];
+
+               if ($options['tweet_max_length'] && strlen($tweet_text) > $options['tweet_max_length']) {
+                   $tweet_text = substr($tweet_text, 0, $options['tweet_max_length']) . '...';
+               }
                $tweet_location = $tweet['place']['full_name'];
                $link_processed = "";
                if(isset($tweet['retweeted_status'])) {
@@ -270,7 +278,7 @@
                    $link_processed = process_links($whole_tweet, $options['links_new_window']);
                }
                else {
-                   $link_processed = process_links($tweet['text'], $options['links_new_window']);
+                   $link_processed = process_links($tweet_text, $options['links_new_window']);
                }
                $tweet_time = strtotime($tweet['created_at']);
                if($options['show_local_time']) {
@@ -456,6 +464,7 @@
                $twitget_settings['twitter_username'] = stripslashes($_POST['twitget_username']);
                $twitget_settings['time_limit'] = (int) $_POST['twitget_refresh'];
                $twitget_settings['number_of_tweets'] = (int) $_POST['twitget_number'];
+               $twitget_settings['tweet_max_length'] = (int) $_POST['twitget_max_length'];
                $twitget_settings['time_format'] = stripslashes($_POST['twitget_time']);
                $twitget_settings['show_powered_by'] = (isset($show_powered)) ? true : false;
                $twitget_settings['consumer_key'] = stripslashes($_POST['twitget_consumer_key']);
@@ -600,6 +609,14 @@
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
+                       <th scope="row"><label for="twitget_max_length">Max Length of tweets</label></th>
+                       <td>
+                           <input type="text" name="twitget_max_length" id="twitget_max_length" value="<?php echo $twitget_options['tweet_max_length']; ?>" />
+                           <br />
+                           <span class="description">Maximum length of a tweet in characters.</span>
+                       </td>
+                   </tr>
+                   <tr>
                        <th scope="row"><label for="twitget_time">Time format</label></th>
                        <td>
                            <input type="text" name="twitget_time" id="twitget_time" value="<?php echo esc_html($twitget_options['time_format']); ?>" />
@@ -761,5 +778,3 @@
        }

    }
-
-?>