Fix for the Twitter Feed in the Aparatus Sidebar

Several users had mentioned that the Aparatus sidebar tweet has stopped working. I investigated and it turns out that it had something to do with Twitter, it’s API versions conflicting of some sort. I revised some of the code and the results are below.

Note that this will require you to edit the code – so you have to open sidebar.php in the editor in the admin section.

The old code also makes use of the snoopy class – which I thought was overkill since we’re only grabbing the latest tweet. I have taken out a few unnecessary loops, and calls to update options and such. Look for this block of code in sidebar.php:

	fetch($url);
	  if ($result) {
		$twitterdata   = json_decode($snoopy->results,true);
		$i = 0;
		while ($twitterdata[$i]['in_reply_to_user_id'] != '') {
		  $i++;
		}
		$pattern  = '/@([a-zA-Z]+)/';
		$replace  = '@1';
		$output   = preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$twitterdata[$i]["text"]);
		$output = make_clickable($output);
		$tweet['lastcheck'] = mktime();
		$tweet['data']    = $output;
		$tweet['rawdata']  = $twitterdata;
		$tweet['followers'] = $twitterdata[0]['user']['followers_count'];
		update_option('lasttweet',$tweet);
	  } else {
		echo "Twitter API not responding.";
	  }
	} else {
	  $output = $tweet['data'];
	}
	echo "
".$output."
";
	?>

And replace with the code below:

	Twitter is not responding.
";
	}else{
		$twitterdata = json_decode($json, true);
		$pattern  = '/@([a-zA-Z]+)/';
		$replace  = '@1';
		$output   = preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$twitterdata[0]["text"]);
		$output = make_clickable($output);
		echo '
' . $output . '
';
	}
	?>

First thing you’ll see is the twitter url has changed. Followed by a leaner, cleaner output. Note that I will include this the next version of Aparatus so stay tuned.