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I am trying to get a twitter feed onto my website but having no luck.

I know my code is correct as I have pulled it from another website and they are all working fine.

When reviewing my EE Wizard results I noticed the only thing that didn’t get the green YES was the “Ability to send Pings”.

Could this be the problem?

If so, what would I ask my server administrator to turn on for me so I can get it to start working?

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Using Twitter Timeline the page just hangs and then throws up a 504 error.

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TWEETLINE gives the following PHP errors

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined index: channel
Filename: tweetline/pi.tweetline.php
Line Number: 122

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Magpie RSS parser tells me the following

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: User Warning
Message: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/284791743.rss. (HTTP Error: connection failed (11)
Filename: plugins/pi.magpie.php
Line Number: 1414

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Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Hi Lachlan,

I’m sorry you are having trouble with Twitter Timeline and MagpieRSS!

Tweetline is a third-party add-on, so I’m sorry I won’t be able to assist you with that. I suggest you contact the add-on’s author with your questions.

However, I am happy to help you out with the other 2 plugins!

Twitter Timeline requires that the twitter account be public in order to work. Are you trying to access a public stream? Also, make sure you have used the ExpressionEngine 1 version of the plugin as well.

Can you share with me the code you have for Twitter Timeline? What version of ExpressionEngine are you using? What version of PHP and MySQL are you running on your server?

I look forward to your reply!

Cheers,

I am using EE v2.4.0 - Build: date 20120123

I am not sure what version of PHP & MYSQL my server has because that was setup by my clients IT dept, I have emailed them to find out but they are in Austria so it might take some time to get a reply.

The EE Wizard (screenshot attached) shows that it is running a version that is at least good enough for EE 2.4

The code I am using for Twitter Timeline is

{exp:twitter_timeline screen_name="lachlanmunday"}
<div class="tweet">
    <div class="date">{created_at format="%m-%d %g:%i"}</div>
    <div class="author">
        <div class="icon">
            {profile_image_url}
        </div>
        {name}
    </div>
    <div class="status">{text}</div>
</div>
{/exp:twitter_timeline}

For the Magpie RSS i am using the following

{exp:magpie url="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/284791743.rss" limit="5" refresh="1"}
 <ul class="links-list">
  {items}
  <li>{title}</li>
  {/items}
 </ul>
{/exp:magpie}

I have got the info about my server.

it is running..

PHP 5.3.10 (cli) (built: Feb 29 2012 23:21:26)
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.60

Hi Lachlan,

I looked up the 504 error, since that is all we have to go on. It looks like it relates to slow communication behind the scenes between servers.

You may need to contact your host about that particular error.

Any luck contacting the developers of the other add-ons?

Cheers,