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Hey Blake, great tool, good tutorial by way of reading your code, i see whats happening, bar the fact i have never used CURL before, im getting this error:

Call to undefined function curl_init()

Any ideas? do i need to add anything to my PHP setup?

Sorry, cleared that last problem up, but now my updates only appear at the top of the page, cant seem to get them where i want them, im adding it into a sidebar in a template system:

$Sidebar.=
include(”includes/Stats2Site.php”);
if(function_exists(’put_Stats2Site’)){put_Stats2Site()};

Sorry, changed the code slightly to that of previously posted, very bad php! I included the include at the top of the page, then altered the rest to this:

if(function_exists(‘put_Stats2Site’)){
$Sidebar.= put_Stats2Site();
}

But still the results returned appears above everything on the page, including the doctype!! I have tried this on another website, different server etc setup and slightly newer version of PHP and although it shows where you would expect it to show, i do get an error, which i am trying to resolve with my host, the error just incase you are interested is:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘String could not be parsed as XML’ in /mnt/gs01/herd03/2181/domains/iantearle.com/html/Stats2Site.php:52 Stack trace: #0 /mnt/gs01/herd03/2181/domains/iantearle.com/html/Stats2Site.php(52): SimpleXMLElement->__construct(”) #1 /mnt/gs01/herd03/2181/domains/iantearle.com/html/index.php(256): put_Stats2Site() #2 {main} thrown in /mnt/gs01/herd03/2181/domains/iantearle.com/html/Stats2Site.php on line 52

I also get the “Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /var/www/Stats2Site.php on line 35″ message… Any idea how I fix it?

Thanks

I’m havning problem with the text-encoding. How can I change the output encoding in PHP?

Regards
Erik

Thanks Blake - I’m running my own webserver (but new to this kinda thing) and added the Curl functionality to my PHP installation. Everything works perfectly now, so many thanks!

Just wanted to say thank you Blake, this is an excellent tool to display Facebook status updates on your own site, I managed to resolve the issues i was having, PHP 5 and some editing on my CMS (Expanse now Dreamscape - dreamscapecms.com for the inquisitive)- to which between my self and the now owner are creating a plugin to, if that would be ok Blake?

Is it possible to enable cache for the script? it seems to be the only thing thats slowing my page down at the moment.

Thanks for a awsome script!

Hey Blake, any news on being able to convert this script to PHP4?
I will be working to get it compatible with PHP4.

I’ve tried myself, but failed. I would prefer to use your script as it grabs the feed direct rather than relying on twitter.
I’ll buy you a beer if you can do it!

Hi Blake,

This seems like the perfect tool for me. However, I’m very limited at using PHP. I’d love it if you could help me out.

I’ve inserted this code in multiple places in my index.html page, with the call. All it returns is:

Warning: main(‘Stats2Sitephp’) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.terkel/natechristman/copyreader.net/index.html on line 14

Warning: main(‘Stats2Sitephp’) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.terkel/natechristman/copyreader.net/index.html on line 14

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘‘Stats2Sitephp’’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/.terkel/natechristman/copyreader.net/index.html on line 14

I’m super confused on where to put the function definition, so that the call will find it. I think that’s my only problem Any words of wisdom would be appreciated, I spent all night trying to figure it out, and I am now braindead. Thanks in advance!

I have been having some trouble with this script. It does work, but prevents my page from loading most of the time. Other times it just takes forever to load…

Hey mate, I’m real confused, i’ve been trying to hunt this down for a while now, and i don’t know whether it’s because i don’t know what im loking for or it’s no longer available. The “mini-feed” RSS feed that everyone keeps talking about, I can-not find at all on the new Facebook. If someone can direct me to where it is, following the instructions on this site has left me somewhat at a loss.

Hi Blake, got the code sorted, now I’ve got the same problem as Nate from August 7th. any help would be appreciated.

Hey Martin,

Just want to check. You have got PHP5 installed haven’t you? The script will only work with PHP5 as simpleXML is not supported in any less than libraries.

Hope this works out for you.

Stats2Site plugin for DreamscapeCMS and Expanse available, visit http://blog.iantearle.com

Hi there. Also got the curl_init problem. I am 100percent sure that PHP5+ is running on my server so I wonder what the reason might be that the function is not working…

Hi Blake,

I’m getting:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘String could not be parsed as XML’ in /home/pbaker/public_html/philsbury/new/includes/facebook.php:52 Stack trace: #0 /home/pbaker/public_html/philsbury/new/includes/facebook.php(52): SimpleXMLElement->__construct(”) #1 /home/pbaker/public_html/philsbury/new/index.php(54): put_Stats2Site() #2 {main} thrown in /home/pbaker/public_html/philsbury/new/includes/facebook.php on line 52

I’ve read the previous posts and you say this is only in PHP5, I’m running 5.2 - any ideas?

Cheers
Phil

Hi Phil et al., I am definitely running PHP5+ on my site but like Andreas I am getting the same problems still. I start my programming subjects at uni in March, I think I’m going to leave all this until I develop some skills beyond a very basic understanding of coding.

Hi, your code works really great. I would like to be able to put 4 facebook user’s status on my blog (my wife’s, my 2 kids and I) How can I do that with your code ?

If someone has an idea ????
thanks

Same as Phil

Hi Blake, like Martin I’m running PHP5 but also experience the ‘uncaught exception’ problem. Any more suggestions?

Regards,

Andy

Sapin,

To add more than one Facebook user’s status all you’ll need to do is have function variables, like:

function put_Stats2Site($url,$fbname,$numofupdates)

Then remove these 3 variables from the top of the function.

On your page instead of just

put_Stats2Site();

You’ll need to fill in the variables like

put_Stats2Site($url_1,$fbname_1,$numofupdates_1);
put_Stats2Site($url_2,$fbname_2,$numofupdates_2);
put_Stats2Site($url_3,$fbname_3,$numofupdates_3);
put_Stats2Site($url_4,$fbname_4,$numofupdates_4);

Setting all the _1 variables to one person, _2 to another person, etc…

ALSO, whilst I’m commenting, the code has been displaying my status update on my website fine up until today, but now it’s not showing. Any reasons why this may be?

Please note that my last 3 updates have in them, could this be stopping it from working?

My website is peternichol.com

And my facebook status update feed is
http://new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=504065984&viewer=504065984&key=d8f9b9fac8&format=rss20

Thanks.

-Peter

Martin,

On your PHP file try giving it a .php5 extension.

My webserver is both PHP 4 and PHP 5 enabled, but defaults to PHP 4. To display a PHP 5 page I just use “.php5″

Give it a go!

Hi guys, I’ve managed to fix the Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘String could not be parsed as XML’…….error.

find the line :

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061223 Firefox/2.0.0.1″);

and add this after it:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

Working fine now!

Hmmm everything works great! Except I can’t get rid of the name, no difference if I set $rmnameis to true or false. Any ideas?? Thanks!

OK fixed it…

$rmnameis = true;

$message = str_replace($fbprefix,null,$xml->channel->item[$count]->title);

replaced by

$message = str_replace(’My name ‘,null,$xml->channel->item[$count]->title);

@Peter Nichol

are sure your code works ? I can not make it work. I don’t understand where to put the variable. Also there are references to $fbname at lines 61 and 119. What should I do with it ?

Thanks

Is there a chance to display ONLY days (OR hours OR minutes)? For example:

“Updated about 2 days ago”
instead of
“Updated 2 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes ago”

or

“Updated about 14 hours ago”
instead of
“Updated 14 hours, 12 minutes ago”

I had to upgrade to PHP5 in order for it to work - but it’s awesome.

Thanks for the great bit of code

Where is the Mini-Feed bar?

I am trying to implement Stats2Site on a joomla site. I’ve placed the following code into a page which is a file called default.php:

I’ve verified that the include is working, but I am getting the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function put_stats2site() in /default.php on line 3

I have not altered the Stats2Site php file, except to input the variables. Joomla is running PHP 5.2.9.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

(By the way, the error message outputs the function name in all lowercase. I thought maybe somehow the cases were getting screwed up, causing the error. But I changed the function name to all lowercase, both in the Stats2Site.php file and in the call to the function within default.php, and get the same error)

I am trying to implement Stats2Site on a joomla site. I’ve placed the following code into a page which is a file called default.php:

I’ve verified that the include is working, but I am getting the following error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function put_stats2site() in /default.php on line 3

I have not altered the Stats2Site php file, except to input the variables. Joomla is running PHP 5.2.9.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

(By the way, the error message outputs the function name in all lowercase. I thought maybe somehow the cases were getting screwed up, causing the error. But I changed the function name to all lowercase, both in the Stats2Site.php file and in the call to the function within default.php, and get the same error)