Comments on: Fetching Tweets

By: Amey

Amey — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:09:47 +0000

Great lib.. but i cant get it to work!!!

heres the code im using (ive just copy-pasted your code):

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username = ‘myusername;
$t->password = ‘mypassword’;

$data = $t->userTimeline();

foreach($data as $tweet) {
echo $tweet->text;
echo “”;
}

?>
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where am I going wrong?

By: RPeters

RPeters — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:41:15 +0000

Can’t seem to get the status to take. It comes back as successful, but never appears on my twitter page

By: Dmtriy

Dmtriy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:00:33 +0000

Matt,

Thanks for the “@” workaround.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:18:07 +0000

I don’t know WHY, but the getFriendsTimeline() simple runs the getUserTimeline() function, so you have to modify the class yourself to get your friends timeline (home page on twitter) WTF?!?!?!
The function is labbeld @depresiated…no its not! its the most important function you’ll ever need!

So, you make a copy copy User timeline function, drop it in the friends function modifying the URL accordingly:

$request = ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.’ . $this->type . $qs;

Sorry….but once again…WTF?!?!!

By: Matheus

Matheus — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:50:14 +0000

I found a ‘mistake’ at friendsTimeline()
- return $this->userTimeline( $id, $count, $since, $since_id, $page );

it must be the same as userTimeline
if( !in_array( $this->type, array( ‘xml’,'json’,'rss’,'atom’ ) ) )
.
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but using friends_timeline instead of user_timeline at that lines:
$request = ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.’ . $this->type . $qs;
$request = ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/’ . rawurlencode($id) . ‘.’ . $this->type . $qs;

Isn’t it?
At least it works for me.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:37:03 +0000

Just found the Google code page (http://code.google.com/p/php-twitter/), ignore my last couple responses. Nice work Aaron and whoever else is working on this project. Maybe in the header of the .php file you can put a link to http://code.google.com/p/php-twitter/ .

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:22:42 +0000

I changed the ratelimit function from this:

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type, array( 'xml','json' ) ) )
return false;
$request = 'http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.' . $this->type;
return $this->objectify( $out );
}

to this:

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function ratelimit()
{
if( !in_array( $this->type, array( 'xml','json' ) ) )
return false;
$request = 'http://twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.' . $this->type;
return $this->objectify( $this->process( $request ) );
}

Was the variable $out used in an earlier version?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:12:31 +0000

I was able to fix the above problem by putting a space in front of the “@”. Working code looks like this:

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$t = new twitter;
$t->username = 'user';
$t->password = 'password';

$data = $t->update('test1 @anotherUser');
print '

'; print_r($data); print '

';
print '

'; print_r($t->responseInfo); print '

';

$data = $t->update(' @anotherUser test1');
print '

'; print_r($data); print '

';
print '

'; print_r($t->responseInfo); print '

';
?>

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:51:20 +0000

The second status update fails but the first is successful. Why does having the “@” in the front destroy the update? How can I fix this?

username = ‘user’;
$t->password = ‘password’;

$data = $t->update(‘test1 @anotherUser’);
print ”; print_r($data); print ”;
print ”; print_r($t->responseInfo); print ”;

$data = $t->update(‘@anotherUser test1′);
print ”; print_r($data); print ”;
print ”; print_r($t->responseInfo); print ”;
?>

By: Lazlo

Lazlo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:16:23 +0000

Is there a method that uses this link to grab data from:

“http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json”

I see that userTimeline grabs from

“http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline”

but this is not the data I am trying to capture.

I’m not seeing a function that really gets to the friends_timeline information. Is it in the class.twitter.php file that I downloaded? I can’t find it. I’m trying to emulate the twitter.com homepage that an authenticated user gets.

Any help achieving this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!