Twitter Connect and Curl Error.

YellOff

Fresh install vanilla here, and I've been getting this error whenever I tried to enable twitter plugin.

This is the error:
The addon could not be enabled because it generated a fatal error:
This plugin requires curl.

I'm not very technical and the hosting company said curl is installed on my vps. I've search everywhere on google and in this forum, and still have no idea what's going on. How do I fix this error?

YellOff

Everything works now. A simple Google search to enable curl_exec on server control panel. After all this, feeling bad that I didn't figure out curl_exec was disabled.

Thanks x00 for the massive helps. You're awesome, I appreciate that.

422

Check your php.ini

The path where PHP looks for its php.ini file is built into PHP on compile time. To find out that path, use a PHP script that does a phpinfo() call. This will display a huge table of all of PHP's configuration variables. The path to php.ini can be found in the first part of that table, near the start of the page.

you can simply create a new file (name it "phpinfo.php", for example) that contains the single line

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Upload that file anywhere on your website and call it up in your browser.

x00

you need php curl functions. Curl may well be installed.

422

Test http://cleverwp.com/function-curl-php-extension-loaded/

x00

if(function_exists(‘curl_version’))
  echo "curl enabled";

YellOff

Check your php.ini

The path where PHP looks for its php.ini file is built into PHP on compile time. To find out that path, use a PHP script that does a phpinfo() call. This will display a huge table of all of PHP's configuration variables. The path to php.ini can be found in the first part of that table, near the start of the page.

you can simply create a new file (name it "phpinfo.php", for example) that contains the single line

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Upload that file anywhere on your website and call it up in your browser.

Found and what's next?

Test http://cleverwp.com/function-curl-php-extension-loaded/

Where does the code goes to? Do I have to create a new php file in my web directory?

if(function_exists(‘curl_version’))
  echo "curl enabled";

Where do I put these codes into? Do I add that into php.ini?

YellOff

Also, this is what I found in the Curl section:
cURL support enabled
cURL Information libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5

Do I take it as it is enabled? I found a guide on creating a php file to test Curl, and it does return an array of strings.

Not sure what I'm missing, Twitter connect still doesn't work.

x00

first make sure you have the latest version of that plugin, it is one contained in this zip

https://github.com/vanillaforums/Addons/zipball/master

disable then enable it. Then let me know. If necessary you can disable the curl check.

YellOff

first make sure you have the latest version of that plugin, it is one contained in this zip

https://github.com/vanillaforums/Addons/zipball/master

disable then enable it. Then let me know. If necessary you can disable the curl check.

I don't see Twitter plugin in there.

x00

It seems it is only in the garden repro
https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/zipball/master

x00

Ok it is seem there is something wrong that it is not detecting curl

try and comment out these lines in class.twitter.plugin.php

      if (!function_exists('curl_exec')) {
         throw new Gdn_UserException('This plugin requires curl.');
      }

like so

//      if (!function_exists('curl_exec')) {
//         throw new Gdn_UserException('This plugin requires curl.');
//      }

if so then php could be mis-compiled or something else that is preventing curl form working

YellOff

After doing that, I could get it enabled, but I tried to sign in with twitter account, after clicking on the small twitter icon and gave me a blank popup page.

x00

have you completed
dashboard/settings/twitter
?

I honestly don't think you have full curl support otherwise curl_exec should be there.

YellOff

now that you mention it, after looking at the phpinfo page, I found this




Is the function disabled?

Tim

Looks that way.

x00

yep

you need
curl_init
curl_setopt
curl_getinfo
curl_close
curl_exec

YellOff

Everything works now. A simple Google search to enable curl_exec on server control panel. After all this, feeling bad that I didn't figure out curl_exec was disabled.

Thanks x00 for the massive helps. You're awesome, I appreciate that.

x00

no worries