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1. abhinandh
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   here is the warning i get

   Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in D:\xampp\xampplite\htdocs\wp-includes\rss.php on line 577

   im trying to add a twitter widget - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/ - with the call
   <?php twitter_messages('abhinandh', 3, true, true, '>>', true, true, false); ?>

   wordpress 2.8.4

2. esmi
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Looks like there's problem with that widget and WP 2.8.4

3. FreekOne
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   This happens because the fetch_rss function is deprecated (fetch_feed is the new function) and WP now uses SimplePie instead of the old MagPie. The widget tries to parse a SimplePie Object as a MagPie Object and that breaks things. Took me quite a few hours to figure it out but here's the fix I came up with:

   Open the wp-content/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/twitter.php file.

   Find and delete - 2 instances

   include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');

   Find and replace - 2 instances

   $messages = fetch_rss('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.rss');

   with:

   $messages = fetch_feed('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.rss');

   Find and replace

   if ( empty($messages->items) ) {

   with

   $feed_count = $messages->get_item_quantity();
   if ( empty($feed_count) ) {

   Find and replace

   foreach ( $messages->items as $message ) {
   $msg = " ".substr(strstr($message['description'],': '), 2, strlen($message['description']))." ";
   if($encode_utf8) $msg = utf8_encode($msg);
   $link = $message['link'];

   with

   foreach ( $messages->get_items() as $message ) {
   $desc = $message->get_description();
   $date = $message->get_date();
   $msg = " ".substr(strstr($desc,': '), 2, strlen($desc))." ";
   if($encode_utf8) $msg = utf8_encode($msg);
   $link = $message->get_link();

   Find and replace

   $time = strtotime($message['pubdate']);

   with

   $time = strtotime($date);

   That should be it. Widget now works perfectly with WP 2.8.4, enjoy ;)

4. thefuntastic
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Thank's you're a life saver!

   Though in my 'twitter for wordpress' the second instance of :

   $messages = fetch_rss('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$username.'.rss');

   is actually:

   $messages = fetch_rss('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$item['username'].'.rss');

   if I changed this to:

   $messages = fetch_feed('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/'.$item['username'].'.rss');

   its seems to work great for me.

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