Hi Colin, You're missing the api subdomain and version "1".. this should work for you instead:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/britishabroad.xml?count=1 Taylor On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:18 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > With the following feed/script: > > $twitter_url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ > britishabroad.xml?count=1"; > > $buffer = file_get_contents($twitter_url); > $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer); > > $status_item = $xml -> status; > $status = $status_item -> text; > > echo $status; > > Nothing is being returned. > > Initally it had been working with "simplexml_load_file" but now > everything has stopped. It is working on my local environment, but as > soon as the file is tested on the server, nothing is working. > > I have tested this with different XMLs and they're fine. > > The error showing is: > > Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could > not be parsed as XML' in /home/bhammers/demophon/dashboard/test.php:5 > Stack trace: #0 /home/bhammers/demophon/dashboard/test.php(5): > SimpleXMLElement->__construct('') #1 {main} thrown in /home/bhammers/ > demophon/dashboard/test.php on line 5 > > I have google this and it seems suggest this is a twitter error? > > Thanks in advance > >
