Question

I have a small problem with my tweets script. But for some reason, I don’t know what the error could be. This is the error it gives me:

$url    = "http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{$username}.xml?count={$number}";
$tweets = file_get_contents($url);
$feed   = new SimpleXMLElement($tweets);

function time_stamp($date){
if (empty($date)){
    return "No date provided";
}

and on the index.php page, it’ll show this code:

<?php
    $username = "user";//your twitter username
    $number = 3;//number of tweets
    include ("{$dir}/php/tweets.php");
?>

Do you guys know what it is that I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

You don’t need file_get_contents()

Try:

$url    = "http://www.twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{$username}.xml?count={$number}";
$feed   = simplexml_load_file($url);

Also, twitter made some changes not too long ago so your URL needs to look like this:

$url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/{$username}.xml?count={$number}";

Check this discussion.