php twitter class not working anymore - php

Question

So I have been using an open source twitter php class I got a few months back, and all of a sudden, it started to throw me errors last night. You can see what is happening here:
www.campusmediawatch.org
It says it requires authentication but I do authenticate and it has been working for months since last night. Any ideas? Here are the functions:
public function getFriends($id = null, $page = null)
{
// build parameters
$aParameters = array();
if($page !== null) $aParameters['page'] = (int) $page;
// build url
$url = 'statuses/friends.xml';
if($id !== null) $url = 'statuses/friends/'. urlencode($id) .'.xml';
// do the call
$response = $this->doCall($url, $aParameters, true, false);
// convert into xml-object
$xml = #simplexml_load_string($response);
// validate
if($xml == false) throw new TwitterException('invalid body');
// init var
$aUsers = array();
// loop statuses
foreach ($xml->user as $user) $aUsers[] = $this->userXMLToArray($user);
// return
return (array) $aUsers;
}
And here is the code that makes the curl call:
private function doCall($url, $aParameters = array(), $authenticate = false, $usePost = true)
{
// redefine
$url = (string) $url;
$aParameters = (array) $aParameters;
$authenticate = (bool) $authenticate;
$usePost = (bool) $usePost;
// build url
$url = self::TWITTER_API_URL .'/'. $url;
// validate needed authentication
if($authenticate && ($this->getUsername() == '' || $this->getPassword() == '')) throw new TwitterException('No username or password was set.');
// rebuild url if we don't use post
if(!empty($aParameters) && !$usePost)
{
// init var
$queryString = '';
// loop parameters and add them to the queryString
foreach($aParameters as $key => $value) $queryString .= '&'. $key .'='. urlencode(utf8_encode($value));
// cleanup querystring
$queryString = trim($queryString, '&');
// append to url
$url .= '?'. $queryString;
}
// set options
$options[CURLOPT_URL] = $url;
$options[CURLOPT_PORT] = self::TWITTER_API_PORT;
$options[CURLOPT_USERAGENT] = $this->getUserAgent();
$options[CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION] = true;
$options[CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER] = true;
$options[CURLOPT_TIMEOUT] = (int) $this->getTimeOut();
// should we authenticate?
if($authenticate)
{
$options[CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH] = CURLAUTH_BASIC;
$options[CURLOPT_USERPWD] = $this->getUsername() .':'. $this->getPassword();
}
// are there any parameters?
if(!empty($aParameters) && $usePost)
{
$var = '';
// rebuild parameters
foreach($aParameters as $key => $value) $var .= '&'. $key .'='. urlencode($value);
// set extra options
$options[CURLOPT_POST] = true;
$options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = trim($var, '&');
// Probaly Twitter's webserver doesn't support the Expect: 100-continue header. So we reset it.
$options[CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER] = array('Expect:');
}
// init
$curl = curl_init();
// set options
curl_setopt_array($curl, $options);
// execute
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$headers = curl_getinfo($curl);
// fetch errors
$errorNumber = curl_errno($curl);
$errorMessage = curl_error($curl);
// close
curl_close($curl);
// validate body
$xml = #simplexml_load_string($response);
if($xml !== false && isset($xml->error)) throw new TwitterException((string) $xml->error);
// invalid headers
if(!in_array($headers['http_code'], array(0, 200)))
{
// should we provide debug information
if(self::DEBUG)
{
// make it output proper
echo '<pre>';
// dump the header-information
var_dump($headers);
// dump the raw response
var_dump($response);
// end proper format
echo '</pre>';
// stop the script
exit;
}
// throw error
throw new TwitterException(null, (int) $headers['http_code']);
}
// error?
if($errorNumber != '') throw new TwitterException($errorMessage, $errorNumber);
// return
return $response;
}

Answer 1

I managed to find the twitter library you are using in a wordpress plugins repository. I hope it is the same one.
I played around with my account using it and I managed to get it working alright. I think you might have to try and log into your twitter account because that error only seems to occur when your account username and password are invalid (thus failed to authenticate on twitter)
So try and log in to your account and make sure your username and password are the same as what you using to initialize the twitter class.
e.g.
$twitter_api = new Twitter(<username>, <password>);