Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Exception' with message 'Unable to Connect to ssl://api.twitter.com:443

Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Exception' with message 'Unable to Connect to
ssl://api.twitter.com:443

I am a trying to get a twitter feed displayed on the home page of my Zend
application, so far I have my IndexController code:
// ---------------Twitter Feed
$token = new Zend_Oauth_Token_Access();
$token->setParams(array(
'oauth_token' => 'token',
'oauth_token_secret' => 'tokSecret',
));
$twitter = new Zend_Service_Twitter(array(
'username' => 'usrname',
'accessToken' => $token,
'oauthOptions' => array(
'consumerKey' => 'consKey',
'consumerSecret' => 'consSecret',
)
));
$options = array('accessToken' => $token);
$this->view->twitter_timeline = $twitter->statuses->userTimeline();
Which is giving me the error:
exception 'Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Exception' with message 'Unable to
Connect to ssl://api.twitter.com:443. Error #-223657718: Unable to find
the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you
configured PHP?'
I can connect to the apit.twitter.com through my browser so it's not a
proxy issue..