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[paulm]

Hi patsky, sorry for the late reply and thanks for posting you fix.

My guess is that your character set is set to UTF-8 i.s.o. utf-8, or maybe a different encoding is being used which can't be converted to iso. If the problem lies in the fact that the script does not account for a UTF-8 versus utf-8 setting this should solve the problem:

Change:

 if (!(CHARSET == 'utf-8')) { 
  // convert UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
    $text = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $text);
  }

to

 if (!(strtolower(CHARSET) == 'utf-8')) { 
  // convert UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
    $text = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $text);
  }

If the problem is related to the use of an incompatible character set you might get problems when using special characters in your tweets (like ö or é).

[landron]

Hi, I just installed this and it doesn't post tweets. When clicking either "now" link, it looks for twitter.com/OnlineWineSale/statuses/1 and Twitter says "sorry, that page doesn't exist!" OnlineWineSale is my Twitter ID. Any help is appreciated

[paulm]

Hi Landron,

I assume you somehow installed an old version, the links don't look like "twitter.com/OnlineWineSale/statuses/" in the latest version. Also the problem appears to be solved, so I guess the cache simply needed a refresh.