Twitter Oauth home timeline display with php - php

Question

$hometime= $Twitter->get_statusesHome_timeline();
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'SimpleXMLElement::__construct() expects parameter 1 to be string
<?php
include 'EpiCurl.php';
include 'EpiOAuth.php';
include 'EpiTwitter.php';
include 'key.php';
$Twitter = new EpiTwitter($consumerKey, $consumerSecret);
$oauthToken='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
$oauthSecret='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';
// user switched pages and came back or got here directly, stilled logged in
$Twitter->setToken($oauthToken,$oauthSecret);
$user= $Twitter->get_accountVerify_credentials();
echo "<img src=\"{$user->profile_image_url}\">";
echo "{$user->name}";
$hometime= $Twitter->get_statusesHome_timeline();
$twitter_status = new SimpleXMLElement($hometime);
foreach($twitter_status->status as $status){
echo '<div class="twitter_status">';
foreach($status->user as $user){
echo '<img src="'.$user->profile_image_url.'" class="twitter_image">';
echo ''.$user->name.': ';
}
echo $status->text;
echo '<br/>';
echo '<div class="twitter_posted_at"><strong>Posted at:</strong> '.$status->created_at.'</div>';
echo '</div>';
}
?>

Answer 1

My best guess is that you might have turned off Warnings (and Notices) and that the
$hometime= $Twitter->get_statusesHome_timeline();
call doesn't return any xml but "false" because it can't connect (or something).
Did you try printing $hometime after the call ?

Answer 2

$hometime should be an array of status objects.
Try
<?php
$hometimeline = $Twitter->get_statusesHome_timeline();
foreach($hometimeline as $status){
echo '<div class="twitter_status">';
foreach($status->user as $user){
echo '<img src="'.$user->profile_image_url.'" class="twitter_image">';
echo ''.$user->name.': ';
}
echo $status->text;
echo '<br/>';
echo '<div class="twitter_posted_at"><strong>Posted at:</strong> '.$status->created_at.'</div>';
echo '</div>';
}