Comments on: Using the Twitter API

By: Shuman

Shuman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:31:37 +0000

Hello Ashley,

At first thanks to you for a great script. When I run this script in my current host, this script works properly and correctly displayed 5 twittets. But when I run this script in my localhost this gives me the following error message: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\twitter\twitter-api.php on line 48. Could you tell me where is the problem?

Thanks
Shuman

By: Sanae Belkhir

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:51:46 +0000

Happy new year to you too Ashley, and thank you for the tip i will try it out this weekend.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:38:21 +0000

@Sanae check out this jQuery ajax example http://papermashup.com/jquery-php-mysql-username-availability-checker/ it works on the same principle as what you would need. Let me know if it helps. I may write a post on twitter / ajax in the future. Happy New Year!

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By: Sanae Belkhir

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:00:40 +0000

great post, any ideas how to implement AJAX so that the results will be real time..?
any help would be much appreciated

Happy new year

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:51:16 +0000

Hi Ashley, thanks for this tutorial.
Every examples are working (@replies, timeline,..) except the followers listing, it gives me an empty list, no error…
Any idea why?
I can’t figure out myself.
Thanks!

By: Fabio Aires

Fabio Aires — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:28:41 +0000

Ashley,

Tested and ran the script. Everything ok!

Very good!

Thanks!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:22:04 +0000

@Ryan, thanks for the tip i’ll make an update to the post with the new code. thanks again!

By: Ryan Barr

Ryan Barr — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:55:13 +0000

Ashley,

My comment before is incorrect. Sorry. I missed a part, it is actually the following:

$description = preg_replace(“#(^|[\n ]|\W)@([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)(^\W)#ise”, “‘\\1@\\2‘”, $description);

Best,
Ryan Barr

By: Ryan Barr

Ryan Barr — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:53:47 +0000

Hey Ashley,

Not a bad start for your tutorial. After building a more complex one myself, I did some searches on Google to see how I compared. For your @reply links, if there are trailing or preceding characters (such as .@username or @username,) the link breaks. The following RegEx should take care of that:

$description = preg_replace(“#(^|[\n ]|\W)@([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)#ise”, “‘\\1@\\2‘”, $description);

Again, great job. Maybe we can work on a script together someday.

Best,
Ryan Barr