rss to twitter error

I am getting this error
Problem with the url shortening service. Check back later. Error: Expected 3 GET parameters: user, pass, url

Any help appreciated...

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Probably you are not settings the $settings array at the beginning. Have you done any changes to the code of the script?

The settings is set... no changes... though I have tried 'hard coding' my username and password into the URL api ... that didn't work,.

Here's the code

Code:

<?php
/*
 * Script that posts multiple RSS feeds to twitter
 * 
 * Use this with crontab (it works with CLI too)
 * to post your feed's content to twitter
 * 
 * A tutorial by:
 * http://www.webdigity.com/
 * 
 */

$settings ['twitter-username'] = 'xxxxx';// Your twitter username
$settings ['twitter-password'] = 'xxxxx';// Your twitter password
$settings ['feed-url'] ='xxxxxxl';//The url of the feed we are going to post to twitter

set_time_limit(0);//We need this because otherwise php will probably time out
//Let's see if we have the curl library
if (!extension_loaded('curl') && !dl('curl.' . (stristr(php_OS, 'WIN')?'dll':'so'))) die( 'Curl is not loaded' );
//Now we need a file to log the last entry so we wont post it again
$file = dirname(__FILE__) . '/feed.log.txt';
if ( !file_exists( $file ) ){
$fp = @fopen( $file, 'w');
if (! $fp )
die( 'Could not write to log file. Check your permissions.' );
fclose( $fp );
} else
if ( !is_writable( $file ) ) die( 'Could not write to log file. Check your permissions.' );
//Fetch the RSS feed
$ch = curl_init( $settings['feed-url'] );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$feed = simplexml_load_string ( curl_exec($ch) );
curl_close($ch);
//Parse the feed
$messages = array();//Here we will store all the messages that we are going to post to twitter
foreach( $feed->channel->item as $item ){
$title = $item->title; // If you want to fetch the description instead use $item->description
$url = $item->link;
//Have we already posted that?
if ( $url == file_get_contents($file) ) break;
//Now do the actual posting.

//First we need to shorten the url

$ch = curl_init( 'http://twt.gs/?url='.$url.'&user='.$settings['twitter-username'].'&pass='.$settings['twitter-password'] );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$shortURL = curl_exec($ch);
$resp = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ( $resp != '200' )
die('Problem with the url shortening service. Check back later. Error: '.$shortURL);


//Now Calculate the twit message
$cnt = 140 - strlen($shortURL) - 1;
$messages [] = strlen($title) <= $cnt ? $title . ' ' . $shortURL : substr($title,0,$cnt-3).'... '.$shortURL;
$lastURL = empty($lastURL) ? $url : $lastURL;
}
//Post to twitter
while( $message = array_pop($messages) ){
$ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'status='.urlencode($message));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $settings['twitter-username'].':'.$settings['twitter-password']);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$resp = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ( $resp != '200' )
die('Problem with twitter. We should try later. Twitter reported: '.$response);
else
sleep(5);//Sleep 5 seconds before the next update
}
$fp = fopen($file, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $lastURL);
fclose($fp);
?>

I also noticed that if I remove this section the code will actually execute... well sort off... it will post the entire feed to twitter, but with no URLs.  It also does not use the log properly, in that if I run the script again it will repost the entire feed.  Thanks for your help.

Code:

//First we need to shorten the url

$ch = curl_init( 'http://twt.gs/?url='.$url.'&user='.$settings['twitter-username'].'&pass='.$settings['twitter-password'] );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$shortURL = curl_exec($ch);
$resp = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ( $resp != '200' )
die('Problem with the url shortening service. Check back later. Error: '.$shortURL);

help pls?

anyone?

can anyone help?

Ugh - I'm reading through the code - not really noticing anything out of the ordinary - Did you change anything??

Nope... nothing changed other than username etc... is anyone using this code successfully?  Maybe twitter changed something?

/statuses/update.xml' Statuses? Typo maybe? That's what I would back over - ensure that all of your spelling is correct for linkage - usually that's what I make mistakes on. Don't pull your hair out over it - it's most likely something very simple you've overlooked

Thanks insight... "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml" is in the original code.. .I didn't touch that.. ?

incidentally it's not writing anything to feed.log..txt either...

help?

still looking for help

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Just use a different url shortening service. Replace the other one with this code and try.

Code:

$ch = curl_init( 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=' .$url );

Should work then.

progress being made... still not writing to log file..... links not posting to twit the word "Error" instead.. but at least it is tweeting...

URL Shortening now looks like:

Code:

//First we need to shorten the url
$ch = curl_init( 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url.'&user='.$settings['twitter-username'].'&pass='.$settings['twitter-password']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$shortURL = curl_exec($ch);
$resp = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ( $resp != '200' )
die('Problem with the url shortening service. Check back later. Error: '.$shortURL);

you can't use the line

$ch = curl_init( 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url.'&user='.$settings['twitter-username'].'&pass='.$settings['twitter-password']);

It has to be replaced with the one I gave you otherwise tinyurl will put your username and password at the end of all your urls.. lol.. Tinyurl does not need your username and password like the other url shortening company did.

Replace that line with:

Code:

$ch = curl_init( 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=' .$url );

Also create a blank feed.log.txt and upload to same folder that you have the rss to twitter script and chmod on log file to 777. It should work then.

raymond - I appreciate you willing to work with me on this so much!
We have made good progress  so far... it's posting to twitter, and loading the the last url into the feed.log.txt file... however ON twitter, there is no link, it still says "ERROR" in place of a link.  My code is below, thank you for your help.

Code:

//First we need to shorten the url
$ch = curl_init( 'http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$url );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$shortURL = curl_exec($ch);
$resp = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ( $resp != '200' )
die('Problem with the url shortening service. Check back later. Error: '.$shortURL);


//Now Calculate the twit message
$cnt = 140 - strlen($shortURL) - 1;
$messages [] = strlen($title) <= $cnt ? $title . ' ' . $shortURL : substr($title,0,$cnt-3).'... '.$shortURL;
$lastURL = empty($lastURL) ? $url : $lastURL;
}
//Post to twitter
while( $message = array_pop($messages) ){
$ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'status='.urlencode($message));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $settings['twitter-username'].':'.$settings['twitter-password']);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$resp = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ( $resp != '200' )
die('Problem with twitter. We should try later. Twitter reported: '.$response);
else
sleep(5);//Sleep 5 seconds before the next update
}
$fp = fopen($file, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $lastURL);
fclose($fp);
?>

Thats odd.... Why don't you try a different rss feed then and see if it still does that. I am not having that issue. My title comes up and then the url....

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