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vBulletin to Twitter, live tweets of new threads
Developer Last Online: Jul 2012
This should work on all 4 and 3 versions of vBulletin as it's trivial.
Description: You start a new thread, this hack makes a tweet about it on your twitter account. This are live updates... not delayed, not based on RSS... the instant the thread is started, a tweet is made. This is how this hack differs from other hacks. Why: Mostly for SEO, but also as an alert system. For SEO the idea is simply that search engines are drinking from the Twitter firehose and are indexing the links that are tweeted. Faster and increased indexing of your site benefits you by helping it be found. For alerts it means that users are able to use whatever twitter client they wish to obtain updates. A lot of these provide filtering capabilities, so they're able to get a live filtered stream of updates that interest them. This works very well when you also use thread prefixes. Pre-requisites: You should have an account on bit.ly for URL shortening, and you should have an account on Twitter. Go and register if you haven't yet: http://bit.ly/ http://twitter.com/ Installation: NOTE: Most problems are related to not putting your bit.ly or twitter user details in the plugin. Follow the instructions carefully! Upload the two attached files to your forum root. These are twitter and bitly classes that enable the hack to work, you can also download these from the author: http://classes.verkoyen.eu/bitly http://classes.verkoyen.eu/twitter/ Go to the plugin manager and create a new plugin with the following details: Product: vBulletin Hook: newthread_post_complete Title: Tweet to Twitter PHP Code: [See below] To configure the PHP code you need to know your bit.ly API key (go get it from bit.ly/account) and your username and password for twitter. You also should make a list of the forumIds that are non-public as you will want to put these in the array provided. i.e. if your admin forum is forumId = 7 and you also have a private forum for regular members which is forumid = 12, then you will want this: $excludedForums = array(7, 12); The PHP code should be this, with all of the relevant values for your forum inserted (replace everything bolded, including the < and > bits): PHP Code:
$bitly = new Bitly('testUser', 'R_hj3456hgf3hig56hi2gf6'); NOT $bitly = new Bitly('<testUser>', '<R_hj3456hgf3hig56hi2gf6>'); See? Remove those <> bits, they just show what to replace. The shortUrl line might look like this: $shortUrl = 'http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t='.$newpost[threadid]; The Twitter line might look like this: $twitter = new Twitter('stephenfry','op1umisn1ce'); All make sense? And that's it. Save and activate the plugin and create a test thread. Now whenever a new thread is started, a tweet will be made to twitter instantly. You can see this in effect here: http://twitter.com/lfgss That is being pushed new threads for http://www.lfgss.com/ and it's working perfectly. Any questions? FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Q: It doesn't work! A: That's not a question, however if it doesn't work then it's extremely likely you got your username and passwords wrong or left the < > signs in there. Double-check and do it again. Q: I see an "INVALID_JSON" error A: Disable bitly by setting $useBitly to false. Q: I see an "You must be authenticated to access shorten" error A: The credentials that you entered are either wrong, or you made a mess of the syntax. You did remove the < > when you put your values in right? Did you check the example given above? Q: I see an error that says "Warning: curl_setopt_array() [function.curl-setopt-array]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in [path]/bitly.php" A: Wow, that's a good one... but easily fixable. Insert this at line 136 (just after the CURL options) in bitly.php: PHP Code:
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I'm sure this could be modified to do what I'm asking by someone. |
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Personally, I would like to see any such mod also include Facebook posts. Right now it's way too difficult. I can't even begin to imagine how you would handle multiple accounts on FB or even if they allow it. |
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Had to disable this as it's not working on 4.2 patch 3
First error was require once file not found on line 29 newthread .php Think I sorted that out, then I got an error about an unexpected T in Twitter.php on line2 |
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Don't ever install a mod without reading the entire thread. Or at least the last few pages. In your case, you seemed to have even missed my post just two above yours!
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INVALID_LOGIN on line 219 in /home3/nextgen6/public_html/forums/bitly.php
#0 /home3/nextgen6/public_html/forums/bitly.php(470): Bitly->doCall('shorten', Array) #1 /home3/nextgen6/public_html/forums/newthread.php(277) : eval()'d code(14): Bitly->shorten('http://www.next...') #2 /home3/nextgen6/public_html/forums/newthread.php(277): eval() #3 {main} Warning: Invalid error type specified in [path]/vb/vb.php on line 286 Any ideas on whats wrong here please ? Cheers |
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I don't mind repeating myself for newbies (much). But as a coder you really should know better than to basically post "it doesn't work", especially for a mod that hasn't worked in ages.
If I can assume that as a coder you read this entire thread before installing, including my post immediately before yours, then you really need to post some more info about what you've done so far to get it working. The mod is marked as reusable, so you're welcome to try fixing it, but really your efforts might be better spent on a mod to post to Facebook right now. |
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Firstly where in your infinite wisdom do you see me posting "It Doesn't work" ?
Exactly, I never posted that, I simply posted the error i got and asked if anyone had any ideas Secondly as a coder i made a couple of simple HTML edits which i shared with the community and which is why i got placed in the 'Coder' usergroup Thirdly i do not want anything from my site posted to facebook as everything that gets posted on my twitter account gets automatically posted to my facebook account Fourthly i have read every page and see some have no issues or have at least got it working, I do not wish to use the other mod as it is different to this So in all of that, Please think before you reply |
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