Question

I’ making this class to catch twitter posts but
I get the error :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/classTest/Twitter.php on line 29

I cant find what’s wrong…any ideas?

class TwitterGrub{


function twitterCapture($user = 'myUsername',$password = 'myPass') {  


           $ch = curl_init("https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml");  
           curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);  
           curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);  
           curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD,$user . ":" . $password);  
           curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
           curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);  
           curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);  
           $result=curl_exec ($ch);  
           $data = strstr($result, '<?');  

           $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);  

      return $xml;  

}  


function twitterDisplay($twitNum){
    $xml = this->twitterCapture(); 


    for($i= 0; $i<$twitNum; $i++){ 
    echo   "<div class='curvebox'>".$xml->status[$i]->text."</div>";

    }
}

}

Answer 1

The only reason I can find that you get the error you are getting is that you are not enclosing the code in php tags. Paste the following code into codepad, and you will get a different error (I have made no other changes to your code):

<?php
class TwitterGrub{


function twitterCapture($user = 'myUsername',$password = 'myPass') {  


           $ch = curl_init("https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml");  
           curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);  
           curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);  
           curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERPWD,$user . ":" . $password);  
           curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
           curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);  
           curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);  
           $result=curl_exec ($ch);  
           $data = strstr($result, '<?');  

           $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);  

      return $xml;  

}  


function twitterDisplay($twitNum){
    $xml = this->twitterCapture(); 


    for($i= 0; $i<$twitNum; $i++){ 
    //echo   "<div class='curvebox'>".$xml->status[$i]->text."</div>";

    }
}

}
?>

Then make the change from this

$xml = this->twitterCapture(); 

to

$xml = $this->twitterCapture();

and the errors will magically disappear.