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steeler7

02-18-2010 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lhridley (Post 1985238)

I've been really surprised at the number of people posting about issues with Bit.ly. It took me all of five minutes to set up my account with them and get that working. I've had many more issues with the mod itself.

For example, it doesn't check to see if the title of a thread exceeds the 140 character length allowed for a tweet -- this causes an Exception error to be thrown that's not captured and handled anywhere -- which is fine for a programmer ,but doesn't really help an end user when they see a screen dump of gobbledygook in response to submitting a thread with a long title.

:/

Was there something that needed to be done at bit.ly that I missed? Threads from my board are going to bit.ly and can be seen on the "home" section of my account. If I click "share" it'll send it to my Twitter account with no problems... I obviiously have the Twitter account set up at bit.ly or I wouldn't be able to share it.... It seems like there's something that's not having it automatically go to Twitter.

sqzdog

02-18-2010 04:45 PM

I am missing the response, or the author has not responded.

My board is not a heavy use board so I want to be able to tweet EVERY POST, not just new threads.

Can this be done?

sqzdog

02-18-2010 04:49 PM

Steeler7, did you check to make sure you included your twitter url in the plugin you created?

steeler7

02-18-2010 06:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sqzdog (Post 1985716)

Steeler7, did you check to make sure you included your twitter url in the plugin you created?

Here's my code... I've looked over it a bunch of times maybe you can see something I screwed up...

PHP Code:


		
			
// The array below are the ids of non-public forums, update these to be your admin forum ids or anything non-public by default

$excludedForums = array(1,2,3,35,36,37,38,39,40,43);



// If you are having trouble getting bitly URL shortening to work... disable it!

$useBitly = true;



if (!in_array($foruminfo[forumid], $excludedForums)) {

    $shortUrl = 'http://www.pittsburghsportstavern.com/forum/showthread.php?t='.$newpost[threadid];



    if ($useBitly) {

      // http://classes.verkoyen.eu/bitly

      require_once 'bitly.php';

      $bitly = new Bitly('kipper51', 'R_**************');

      $shortUrl = $bitly->shorten($shortUrl);

    }



    $tweet = '';

    if (isset($newpost['prefixid']) && $newpost['prefixid'] != '') {

        $tweet = $vbphrase['prefix_'.$newpost['prefixid'].'_title_plain'].' ';

    }

    $tweet .= $newpost['title'].' '.$shortUrl;



    // http://classes.verkoyen.eu/twitter/

    require_once 'twitter.php';

    $twitter = new Twitter('pghsportstavern','********');

    $twitter->updateStatus($tweet);

}

sqzdog

02-18-2010 06:25 PM

Yours looks identical to mine except for the forum exclusions. I put a space after each comma. Don't know if that would even affect it.

Pro-eSports.com

02-18-2010 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com (Post 1985670)

Do I have to enter the sub-forum ID's too or are the main forum ID's enough?
Do category ID's work too?

I also have another question. I only want to tweet a few of my forums, is there a code that instead of the excluded forums I can enter the included forums? Would be easier for a site with many forums.

steeler7

02-18-2010 07:18 PM

does this need a specific version of php? Im using 5.1.6 and couldn't use the Tweet Poster mod because it required php 5.2.3 or higher.

just curious

Majora

02-18-2010 07:21 PM

what do I have to insert after

PHP Code:


		
			
// loop parameters and add them to the queryString

            foreach($aParameters as $key => $value) $queryString .= '&'. $key .'='. urlencode(utf8_encode($value));

to rewrite ??? etc...

Best regards,
Majora

sqzdog

02-18-2010 07:24 PM

Quote:

does this need a specific version of php? Im using 5.1.6 and couldn't use the Tweet Poster mod because it required php 5.2.3 or higher.

just curious

I don't know. I'm running 5.2.8

steeler7

02-18-2010 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sqzdog (Post 1985855)

just curious

I don't know. I'm running 5.2.8

Hmmm...

anyone else running php 5.1.6 or lower? I'm talking with my host to upgrade but they said something about conflicts with plesk being an issue (I think they're trying to scare me off from forcing them to do work..lol)

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