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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(28,72,74,88,26,81,62,25,40);

// If you are having trouble getting bitly URL shortening to work... disable it!
$useBitly = false;

if (!in_array($foruminfo[forumid], $excludedForums)) {
    $shortUrl = 'http://www.trulyfe.com/showthread.php?t='.$newpost[threadid];

    if ($useBitly) {
      // http://classes.verkoyen.eu/bitly
      require_once 'bitly.php';
      $bitly = new Bitly('trulyfe', 'R_3798ebe20e93bcd8f6f2adccae0bef8f ');
      $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('trulyfeforum','pass');
    $twitter->updateStatus($tweet);
}

this is what im using but its not authenticating with bitly. any idea why

First, it says "use bitly=false". Second, you have a space in your bitly key.

I'm not able to authenticate. I've turned bitly off because I thought that was the problem, but no, so you'll see bitly=false right now.

My test forum is bogley.com/4.0. I've dropped the bitly.php and twitter.php files in the 4.0 folder. I don't need to edit those do I?

Here's what I see right after I submit a thread titled "Twitter Testing..."

/statuses/update.xml Could not authenticate you. Unauthorized on line 229 in /var/www/vhosts/bogley.com/httpdocs/4.0/twitter.php
#0 /var/www/vhosts/bogley.com/httpdocs/4.0/twitter.php(648): Twitter->doCall('statuses/update...', Array, true)
#1 /var/www/vhosts/bogley.com/httpdocs/4.0/newthread.php(262) : eval()'d code(26): Twitter->updateStatus('twitter testing...')
#2 /var/www/vhosts/bogley.com/httpdocs/4.0/newthread.php(262): eval()
#3 {main}

Here's what my code looks like:

Code:

Plugin 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(47, 37, 48, 49, 50, 45, 46);



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

$useBitly = false;



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

    $shortUrl = 'http://www.bogley.com/4.0/showthread.php?t='.$newpost[threadid];



    if ($useBitly) {

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

      require_once 'bitly.php';

      $bitly = new Bitly('bogley', 'R_e1602345ef71fdad93ecc8cb71232888');

      $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('TWITTERACCOUNT','TWITTERPASS');

    $twitter->updateStatus($tweet);

}

(twitter acct & password substituted)

I'm very eager to get this mod working. Thanks.

I have yet to see any really good reason (or solution) to why Twitter refuses to authenticate some people. It must be a server issue, but I haven't seen a solution.

Perhaps try opening a ticket at your host? Maybe do it late one night when they have nothing else to do and be sure to phrase it nicely and mark it as a low priority so they don't just fly off the handle and tell you to get lost.

Then again, perhaps some of the people having Twitter auth problems solved it but forgot to post back and tell us what the trouble was?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Videx (Post 2017743)

I have yet to see any really good reason (or solution) to why Twitter refuses to authenticate some people. It must be a server issue, but I haven't seen a solution.

So that's pretty much what it is, that Twitter is not authenticating the post? OK, thanks for the reply. :)

EDIT - OK I changed my twitter account to a different one that has been in use for a couple of years, made a test thread, and received this:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'http://www.bogley.com/4.0/newthread.php?do=postthread&...

</hash>

This was on IE8

Who knows. That all sounds like some sort of style issue. Are you using the default vb style? If not, you may have to revert to it at least for testing.

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(18, 19, 23, 37);



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

$useBitly = true;



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

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



    if ($useBitly) {

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

      require_once 'bitly.php';

      $bitly = new Bitly('BitlyName', 'BitlyAPiKey');

      $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('Twitteracc','TwitterPass');

    $twitter->updateStatus($tweet);

}

This is my Plugin Code.But not working.Do you see any mistake?

Not: i didn't write my own twitter account name and password, at the same time bitly account name and api key also.
bitly.php and twitter.php are in my forum root folder.

anyone knows how to limit the script that threads in a forum, which first need to get moderated, don't get posted to twitter. but if a mod sets it visible it will be posted to twitter?

Quote:

Originally Posted by milaszewski (Post 2013521)

Polish characters are displaying incorrectly. Any way of solving it? Please take a look: www.twitter.com/dzwiek
I use iso-8859-2 coding

I solved the problem like this:

Code:

$tweet .= utf8_encode($newpost['title'].' '.$shortUrl);

Twitter uses utf8, so it with be ok also with English....

nstlx

Installed no problems instructions crystal clear. Thank you for such a useful mod.

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