Also wanted to mention that the original code is based on the tutorial here:
http://papermashup.com/using-the-twitter-api/
and the data is automatically inserted into a database.
Thanks,
Lorraine
Thank you so much, Abraham! I'm getting an error "String could not be parsed
> as XML" now- this is what I now have (with my reset consumer keys put in
> :-)):
>
>
> require_once('twitteroauth.php');
> $connection = new TwitterOAuth('consumer key', 'consumer secret', 'access
> token', 'access token secret');
> $tweets = $connection->get('statuses/friends_timeline');
> $latesttweets = count($tweets);
>
> $tw = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_URL, $tweets);
> curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
>
> $twi = curl_exec($tw);
> $tweeters = new SimpleXMLElement($twi);
>
> I then go on to grab data using
> foreach ($tweeters->status as $twit1) {
>
> etc.
>
> Thanks again,
> Lorraine
>
>
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Make sure you reset your consumer key on http://dev.twitter.com/apps and
> try not to post them in public in the future.
>
> This should work. I switched it to json as it didn't look like you needed
> the actual xml and dropped the count as 20 is the default.
>
> require_once('twitteroauth.php');
> $connection = new TwitterOAuth('consumer key', 'consumer secret', 'access
> token', 'access token secret');
> $tweets = $connection->get('statuses/friends_timeline');
> $latesttweets = count($tweets);
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 02:38, Lorraine <lorrainema...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe I should explain what I'm trying to do-- basically just want to
>> get my own status updates and the (public) details & updates of my
>> friends.
>>
>> Would it work if I replaced this:
>> $login = "mytwitterusername:mytwitterpassword";
>> $tweets = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=20";;
>>
>> with this?:
>>
>> require_once('twitteroauth.php');
>> $connection = new TwitterOAuth('6Oe8P3U72LimBkfGsj0h1A',
>> 'XVX67blKxfro001KDq1PZLV6QwZ5Et1TnmeVBexMqI', '769601-
>> PXr5egoxYccGKnua9cg58QNfVMIyiXsEFUtkOPoH0',
>> 'P7JiGIKvMg8TsaKgxU9azAi8cZwerZyshu1VHwoPbD8');
>> $connection->format = 'xml';
>> $tweets = $connection->get('statuses/friends_timeline.xml?count=20');
>>
>> $tw = curl_init();
>> curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_URL, $tweets);
>> curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
>>
>> $twi = curl_exec($tw);
>> $tweeters = new SimpleXMLElement($twi);
>> $latesttweets = count($tweeters);
>>
>> ... or am I completely off the mark?
>>
>> Thanks very much :)
>> Lorraine
>>
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