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Pretty obviously a server error, but you didn't tell us a thing about your server. So try it without bitly.

A reminder: This mod is going to stop working in August since it has not been modified to work with Twitter's new oauth. Everyone should stop fooling with it.

I've been trying for awhile now to get this working on 3.8.4 with no luck :(

I get no error messages, but it posts nothing to twitter at all..

Here is my code, can anyone see anything obviously wrong with it?

Quote:

// 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(27);

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

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

if ($useBitly) {
// http://classes.verkoyen.eu/bitly
require_once 'bitly.php';
$bitly = new Bitly('username','API Key');
$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('twitname','password');
$twitter->updateStatus($tweet);
}

Thanks

It looks okay to me. But why are you screwing with it? It's going to stop working in a couple weeks regardless what you do. Stop messing with this one people!

The working one is at vBulletin2Twitter .

Quote:

Originally Posted by Videx (Post 2072930)

Thanks, so why doesn't it work :D

And why is this one going to stop working in a week or so? I don't understand why it should stop working...

Quote:

Originally Posted by ErnieTheMilk (Post 2072937)

And why is this one going to stop working in a week or so? I don't understand why it should stop working...

Twitter is switching to oauth - a different type of authentication. They've extended the date once already; hard to say if they will do it again.

I've done loads of searching now but don't understand why there isn't a plugin that can automatically upload an article to twitter from the CMS rather than from forum. Could someone explain the difficulty please?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Videx (Post 2072942)

Twitter is switching to oauth - a different type of authentication. They've extended the date once already; hard to say if they will do it again.

Ah OK, many thanks :)

Will have to figure out another way round it!

Thanks buro this works great...

Thanks
Works fine with vb 4.0.5

Finally got it to work. I forgot to make the plug-in active. Duh!

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