@ buro9
I fixed it.
I am using the following classes:
http://code.google.com/p/bitly/
http://twitter.slawcup.com/twitter.class.phps
My vbulletin plugin becomes:

I am not getting any errors but I am not getting any updates either. I'm sure I've done everything according to the instructions.

Sorry .. too bad.. it doesnot works, after i follow the instruction..

This sounds cool I will try it out tomorrow (too tired now.) Is it possible to have it tweet blog and/or cms articles also? or only threads? Either way I will try it out tomorrow!

We can only feed new threads..... bu we can we feed answers in Threads ?

I had the same issue, was missing a closing } at the end, did not copy/paste correctly from the code. I'm surprised it didnt give me an error with the statement not being closed.

I have attached the error I am receiving after posting a thread. The thread posts correctly but does not send to twitter. Any advice?

I am getting the following error after posting a new thread:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/ddddd/public_html/forums/bitly.php on line 145

I fixed my issue as well, though my problem was I didn't comment out the description at the top. Commented that out and it works amazingly.

Thanks!

Well, I swear I've been over my code 10 times with a fine tooth code-comb and it's fine. And I even had bit.ly reset my API. But I'm still getting the auth errors "You must be authenticated to access shorten on line 193 in ...".

I can disable bit.ly and the twitter stuff works.

I wonder: Can I simply exclude my Admin category number, rather than excluding each separate forum under it (moderators, super moderators, etc.)?

edit: No, you cannot exclude categories. You must list each separate forum.

Let me share my solution.

bitly.php:
I set the following Curl options:
$options[CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION] = false;
$options[CURLOPT_HEADER] = false;

and for twitter.php:
$options[CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION] = false;

Then all error messages gone! :)

This tool is insane, I get 500+ Guests after every thread is posted woha!! thanks man

Oh, it works now! Thanks Jesh!:)

This is SEXY.

I enabled CURL in Apache, and now this Mod is working for be . Thank you very much.

What fun getting this stuff working.

So it all seems to boil down to making sure:
1) CURL is installed and enabled for PHP
2) JSON is enabled
3) You've put the right values in the plugin
4) The moon cycle is aligned with mars

Works a dream once you get past your environment's issues though.

I'm still looking for someone to help package this if people would like that.

Outstanding! Thank you.

I had no problems whatsoever in making this work...however, I did take a little bit of time to figure out what needed to be inserted into the plugin code. To save anyone else the extra few minutes, you are basically just replacing the info in between the < > symbols.

Uh no. You're supposed to replace the <> symbols AND everything between them.

PS I am not seeing any sort of influx of guests; certainly not 500. But then we've never had a presence and have few followers. Not sure what we could do with 500 lurkers knocking about anyway.

Great! Working at http://twitter.com/love_punjab for http://www.lovepunjab.com

Damn, forgot that ;)

Installed it on another of my sites www.lovechandigarh.com working on vb 3.x.
Thanks again... Appreciated!

Mate this done the trick for me. Mine is working as it should be now. Thanks for posting. :)

@buro9

Fantastic mod mate and thanks for sharing. It's really bringing in the traffic! :D

I didn't see an increase, but my site is very new. I got about 20 spiders hit me at once though.

Here is my php.. what did I do wrong?


Please someone help me :)

You've got a space at the end of your bit.ly key (which you might want to remove from the code block here..)

I don't remember your specific problem, but I see you have the infamous extra space after your bitly API.

However, I still can't get bit.ly to authenticate me regardless.

I fixed it, and now my host enabled CURL, JSON is enabled as well.. did I miss something??

EDIT: It still wont work.

K it works, thanks to all who helped!

EDIT: wow and the second I go back to my home page, my spiders on my site went from 11 to 22 and growing...nice!

Okay, let's play semantics. What are you "replacing" the <> symbols with? If it is nothing, then that is not replacing them, it is deleting them AND replacing the info in between them.

Don't know why this would warrant a snarky comment from you and, even more, one that takes exception to the post and then seeks to correct it with....wait for it....an equally incorrect statement.

It works but when i go on twitter i see "unknow file"and when i click on the link come out 404 Not Found

( Not Found

The requested URL /showthread.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.)

With due regards I would like to bring to your kind notice and would like

to have your kind favour in solving my problem.

1. When some one post it immediately goes to twitter site and by clicking

on it - it displays "No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link,

please notify the administrator."

2.Secondly, When somebody adds new thread, it doesnot appears, but when he add it twice then it appear.

3. When someone post it , but it doesnot mention the name of title at bid.ly, it only mention gs community

I, therefore, like to have your kind favour to get it solved as soon as

possible as I need the "TITLE" to be displayed. Kindly guide me in this

matter.

Regards
copy of screenshot here

Do you have your forums in a different folder? Did you adjust the URL to match your forums?
1) Do you have your forums in your forum root? Did you adjust the URL to match your site?

2) There's no reason for it to be called twice, the plugin will either work all the time, or fail all the time. Please double-check the instructions.

3) Twitter will show precisely what you tell it to, bit.ly statistics on the other hand will go and fetch the page and will show the title of the page it fetched. So in the case of bit.ly it is resolving and fetching the URL and show the title of that page. You've already said that problem #1 is that you get a 404 not found, which suggests that your URL is wrong. bit.ly is showing the title of your 404 page because that's currently where the URL ends. Fix #1 and #3 will also be fixed.

No i donot any other forum at my site , just one forum.

2. can u tell how to fix it #1 & #3.. do i hv install and follow the instruction again.

Do reply

Thanks

See this bit:
I'm pretty sure you've set it to:
When it should be:
Assuming I've googled correctly and that is your site.

here is my config..

// 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(7);

if (!in_array($foruminfo[forumid], $excludedForums)) {
// http://classes.verkoyen.eu/bitly
require_once 'bitly.php';

// http://classes.verkoyen.eu/twitter/
require_once 'twitter.php';

$bitly = new Bitly('guru', 'R_d3383e27ad33b187a20e78d68c063be');
$shortUrl = $bitly->shorten('http://www.mysite.info/vbforum/showthread.php?t='.$newpost[threadid]);

$tweet = '';
if (isset($newpost['prefixid']) && $newpost['prefixid'] != '') {
$tweet = $vbphrase['prefix_'.$newpost['prefixid'].'_title_plain'].' ';
}
$tweet .= $newpost['title'].' '.$shortUrl;

$twitter = new Twitter('guru','mypassword');
$twitter->updateStatus($tweet);
}

please check whether is it okay or not

If it s okay.. but i didnot make any change on it . it is same config what i do.
or if it is wrong then please explain correct config.

Do reply

Got it working perfectly first try. I read through the comments here, but I didn't see it (I may have missed, so forgive me if I did). Is there a way to include the Poster's name in the tweet? I'm not sure what the syntax would be for the tweet line.

Basically, I just want it to say "Thread name" by "Poster" ... bit.ly/url I can see WHERE to put it, but I'm not sure of the variable that refers to the poster of a thread.

Is there a way to make it tweet RSS feeds as well?

I would like to thank you for this great mod buro9 , realy nice try : )
and working perfect in 4.0.1

Not working with the new BBR - vB Event Forums. Posting an event doesn't tweet the event. :(