Colin, echo $buffer to see what you are getting from twitter. Could be a whale.
Ryan On Jul 7, 10:42 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > $twitter_url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/ > britishabroad.xml"; > > $buffer = file_get_contents($twitter_url); > $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($buffer); > > $status_item = $xml -> status; > $status = $status_item -> text; > > echo $status; > > I am getting an error: > > 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 > > Would appreciate any help. > > Thanks > > Colin
