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    BobRay Reply #31, 13 years, 11 months ago
    Browsers are pretty forgiving, so the fact that it renders a valid URL doesn't mean that the URL will be parsed correctly by Twitter.

    Try this:

    $screenName = 'BobRay';
$includeRts = '1';
$count = '2';


$url = 'hppp://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_rts="' . $includeRts . '"&screen_name="' . $screenName . '&count="' . $count . '"';



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      alchemy Reply #32, 13 years, 11 months ago
      BobRay - thanks.

      I ended up with:

      $url = 'hppp://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_rts=' . $includeRts . '&Screen_name=' . $screenName . '&Count=' . $count . '';


      which seems to work, returning $ouput to the screen - 

      Time: Thu Oct 04 09:28:50 +0000 2012Tweet: Nice idea RT @TechCrunch: Amazon Offers A New Simulator For Developers To Test Email In Apps http://t.co/dnSm9Scn by @alexwilliamsTime: Thu Oct 04 09:27:27 +0000 2012Tweet: RT @joseeight: am i the only one annoyed about Microsoft's IE9 campaign? i see ads all over the place, how about spending the money gett ...


      What I don't get is that it was setting &Count= &Screen_name= to have a leading capital letter that made the difference - which was a bit unexpected.

      Off now to order your book and look for hints on how to display $output sensibly !





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        BobRay Reply #33, 13 years, 11 months ago
        I'm glad you got it sorted. I don't know where the caps would have come from.


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          alchemy Reply #34, 13 years, 11 months ago
          The odd thing is it seems to need the caps to work ??