Twitter feed not exactly appearing in .swf

I'm trying to get the last post of a clients' Twitter feed embedded into a dynamic .swf file. I thought I had it and indeed if you go here it works:

http://204.12.3.54/twitter.swf

but then I embedded it into the page and now I get the .swf to appear but no feed!

http://h186498wp.setupmyblog.com/

It's supposed to connect to a php page that does the work and I'm enclosing it here. I do have crossdomain.xml set up properly. Anyone know why it doesn't connect on my page but it does by itself?

<?php
/*
* @return string
* @param string $url
* @desc Return string content from a remote file
* @author Luiz Miguel Axcar ([email protected])
*/

function get_content($url)
{
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

ob_start();

curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$string = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

return $string;
}

#usage:
$content = get_content ("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=big_pearl");
echo $content;
?>

Here's the error that pops when trying to run it on the page...

Code:

---

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
        at twitter2_fla::MainTimeline/processXML()
        at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
        at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
        at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

---

It looks like a variable is being overlooked in the processXML function. Without seeing your code, I can't help much beyond that.

Here's the only AS3 code I'm using on the timeline:

var myXMLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myXMLLoader.load(new URLRequest("twitter.php"));
myXMLLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, processXML);
function processXML(e:Event):void {
var myXML:XML=new XML(e.target.data);
tweet_1.text=myXML.status[0].text;
}

followMe_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onFollow);
function onFollow(e:MouseEvent):void{
navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://twitter.com/big_pearl"));
}

Obviously, the onFollow function works. It's the processXML function that's the issue.

hmmm. It may be a hosting thing actually.

if you try to access your "twitter.php" on the blog site, you get this message...

/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=big_pearl Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 150 requests per hour.

Either the Rate limit needs to be lifted, or you'll have to come up with ways to reduce the amount of requests going out.

in php, you could write the twitter results to a file on the server. Then when a user goes to the site, your "twitter.php" would look and see if the file is >1 minute old. If so, update it, then serve to flash.

Yea, I had a feeling about that. I think it's a Twitter issue where a host can't make so many requests per hour. I guess I'm going to have to try the other solution with the flat file. Hopefully, I can make that work.