twitter - tweetsigniter stopped working

[eluser]martynrlee[/eluser]
Hi Guys,

Anyone having issues with tweetsigniter? Over the last few days seems to have stopped pulling data in.

Even a simple test such as:

Code:

$this->load->library('tweetsigniter');
        
$this->tweetsigniter->setInfo('myusername','mypassword','3');

print_r($this->tweetsigniter->twitterFollowers());

This is not pulling any twitter info through. I have not changed anything and cant work out why not working on two sites I have tweetsigniter installed on.

Any ideas?

Martyn.

[eluser]martynrlee[/eluser]
ok realised its related to oauth. fairly new to twitter api so didnt hear about that.

[eluser]martynrlee[/eluser]
Still a bit confused actually...

I just want to use oauth and pull in the latest 3 tweets from a company to a page - pretty simple.

I dont want a user to have to log in to twitter to get to the page.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of the simplest method to acheive this?

Thanks,

Martyn.

[eluser]eoinmcg[/eluser]
assuming you're using php5, here's some code i put together recently:

Code:

$tweets = get_tweets('starfishweb');

foreach($tweets as $tweet)
{
    var_dump($tweet);
}


    function get_tweets($twitter_name, $count=3)
    {

        $url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$twitter_name.xml";

        @$xml = simplexml_load_file($url);

        if ( !$xml )
        {
            return $this->error();
        }


        $data = array();
    
        $n = 1;
    
        foreach ( $xml->status as $status )
        {
            // convert this to a unixtimestamp
            $date = strtotime( (string) $status->created_at);

            $data['tweets'][$n]['time'] = date('d M H:i', $date);
            $data['tweets'][$n]['text'] = auto_link($status->text); // you should load the url helper to make use of autolink
            
            $n++;
        }
        
        return array_slice($data['tweets'], 0, $count);

        
    }

there's room for improvement but you get the idea.

you're obviously going to want to cache, given the timelag in fetching the data from twitter

[eluser]martynrlee[/eluser]
Oh that makes sense, thank you very much 'eoinmcg'!

Didnt think that with it being a public xml you dont even need to have authentication.

sweet, thanks again.