Thread: php error, anybody able to help?

If you visit

designussion.com you will see a twitter feed just above the navigation

im getting this error and have no idea how to fix it.....


Warning: file_get_contents(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:designussion&rpp=1) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable in /home/onempsic/public_html/designussion/wp-content/themes/designussion/header.php on line 77
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anyone able to explain and help me out?
Thank you

I don't know if that's to do with your php, looks more likely a twitter problem to me. Looking at the error message, specifically this part: "HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable " . This is saying, hey there is a server there, and it is up, but requests are not being allowed through. This could've been just twitter being overloaded, or could also mean your website has been rate limited by the twitter api.

An exceprt from the twitter api wiki -

503 Service Unavailable: The Twitter servers are up, but overloaded with requests. Try again later. The search and trend methods use this to indicate when you are being rate limited.

I don't know too much about twitter, since I don't really use it, but I'm sure there is probably another way to add your feed to your site that doesn't use the search api as you are now, which could help avoid rate limiting (if that's what is really going on).

Originally Posted by PSDproxies

Warning: file_get_contents(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:designussion&rpp=1) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable in /home/onempsic/public_html/designussion/wp-content/themes/designussion/header.php on line 77
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Do you have allow_url_fopen enabled in your php.ini?