Integration with vBulletin - vBTwitter

Description

This modification adds basic Twitter integration to vBulletin. Once a user defines their Twitter username & password within their vB Options (User CP -> Edit Options), the Tweet This X links will appear.

It automatically adds a tweet to their account with the default text of "Check this out! " (which can be edited editing the "twitter_checkout" phrase) and uses your forum URL with either tp or tt.php as the link. These redirect to the thread / post that was tweeted.

Installation

1. Upload files in the /upload/ folder of the .zip into the directories as is.
2. Install product file.
3. Register an OAuth Application here, using:
   • Application Name: Your Site!
   • Description: Site Integration into Twitter.
   • (I request this one not be changed!) Application Website: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204694
   • Website: Your URL!
   • Application Type: Browser
   • (change url) Callback URL: http://www.yoururl.com/twitter_auth.php
   • Default Access type: Read & Write
4. Click Install on vB.org
5. Tell Your users.
6. Enjoy

Upgrading to v1.0.4

• Upload all files, overwrite everything.
• Install product file.
• Register an OAuth Application here, using:
  • Application Name: Your Site!
  • Description: Site Integration into Twitter.
  • (I request this one not be changed!) Application Website: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204694
  • Website: Your URL!
  • Application Type: Browser
  • (change url) Callback URL: http://www.yoururl.com/twitter_auth.php
  • Default Access type: Read & Write
• Gain and copy the Consumer Key & Secret into vBulletin Options.

Upgrading to v1.0.3 or before.

• Upload all files, overwrite everything.
• install product file.
• Remove template edits. For the record, they are here:
  • Open the postbit or postbit_legacy template (depending on what you use). Find:
    

    <if condition="$show['postcount']">#<a href="showpost.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]&amp;postcount=$post[postcount]" target="new" rel="nofollow" id="postcount$post[postid]" name="$post[postcount]"><strong>$post[postcount]</strong></a></if>

    Add before that:
    

    <if condition="$post['twitter_username']"><a href="tweet.php?do=post&amp;id=$post[postid]&amp;c=$post[postid]">Tweet this post!</a></if>

  • Open the SHOWTHREAD template.
    Find:
    

    	<if condition="$show['addpoll']">
    	<tr>
    		<td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/addpoll.gif" alt="$vbphrase[add_a_poll]" /> <a href="poll.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newpoll&amp;t=$threadinfo[threadid]">$vbphrase[add_a_poll_to_this_thread]</a></td>
    	</tr>
    	</if>

    Add After:
    

    	<if condition="$vbulletin->userinfo['twitter_username']">
    	<tr>
    		<td class="vbmenu_option">
    			<a href="tweet.php?do=thread&ampid=$threadinfo[threadid]">Tweet This  Thread!</a>
    		</td>
    	</tr>
    	</if>

    Find:
    

    		<if condition="!$show['search_engine']">
    
    			<div><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/printer.gif" alt="$vbphrase[show_printable_version]" vspace="1" /> <a href="printthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$threadid" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[show_printable_version]</a></div>
    			<div><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/sendtofriend.gif" alt="$vbphrase[email_this_page]" vspace="1" /> <a href="sendmessage.php?$session[sessionurl]do=sendtofriend&amp;t=$threadid" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[email_this_page]</a></div>
    		</if>

    Add After:
    

    		<if condition="$vbulletin->userinfo['twitter_username']"><a href="tweet.php?do=thread&amp;id=$threadinfo[threadid]">Tweet This  Thread!</a></if>

Requirements

THIS MODIFICATION REQUIRES PHP 5 DUE TO THE CLASS THAT IS USED!

PHP'S CURL EXTENSION IS ALSO USED! THE API CALLS ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON THEM!

This modification should work on vBulletin v3.5+, but was only tested on a vB 3.8 install.

Using the "tp.php" switch added in v1.0.2

With the release of v1.0.2, a switch between showpost.php?p=ID&postcount=COUNT and showthread.php?p=ID#postID has been added. Using it is simple, but requires a code edit (Note: This is a SUPPORTED code edit!). Open up tp.php and find this line:

PHP Code:

define('SHOWPOST', true); 


Change that line to this:

PHP Code:

define('SHOWPOST', false); 


This will automatically trigger the change any time it is loaded. This works retroactively and any links will automatically use the new settings once changed!

[abroad]

get this error:

Call to undefined function mcrypt_get_iv_size() in /var/www/htm/profile.php(2155) : eval()'d code on line 16

[Lima Bean]

With all due respect to the coder, please take my comments as intended and not as a personal attack against you or the vbTwitter mod - but really, what's the point?

I can see no point in a forum's users littering their twitter pages with a stream of Check This Out text with no description in the links of what the potential visitor might be looking at? I can't speak for other web users out there, but I don't have a tendancy to click on links just because they tell me to click here or to check this out. If you could find a way to form a better link, perhaps by pulling in the post/thread title, then this mod could be mildly useful.

Until then, I am uninstalling this mod. I wish you success as you try to get this worked out, and I would revisit this mod if you can communicate better to users what exactly the link is going to be about.

Regards,
Lima Bean

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by drsli

The username-and-password-authentication-failure still happens with the new version. I severely checked my twitter-login-data, they are working within twitter itself.

Hm. Are you sure you uploaded the new tweet.php?

Originally Posted by RedeemedWarrior

can i delete .svn folders? or are they needed?

Yes. They are invisible on my computer and snuck their way in.

Originally Posted by Cybertims

Mine now works but I get this error message across the top of the redirection screen right after it.


Warning: mcrypt_decrypt() [function.mcrypt-decrypt]: The IV parameter must be as long as the blocksize in [path]\tweet.php on line 9

Any idea why that might be?

Cheers

Update your password, it should have an IV parameter stored with it.

Originally Posted by Infopro

I'm sorry but my forums are not open to the public at this point.

I read earlier in this thread that this was being tested so I waited for your release. Apparently the testers need some testing too.

Personally, I have it installed on 3 beta testing sites, and they all worked perfectly. With the code you gave me, it should not be doing what it is, hence the reason I asked to see the forum.

Originally Posted by Infopro

King Kovifor, how about if you remove all the garbage from your zip file so people can get confused over this thing not working without the added confusion of garbage files no one needs?

I haven't had the time to sit down and remove them. They slipped in as they are invisible on my computer.

Originally Posted by Infopro

I like trying stuff from vb.org but I'm not here to work on other coders bugs. Those should be worked on and hopefully solved before a new post is made offering it to the masses.

This clearly was not tested enough by those who have.

Your problem is unique, and the only one I've seen like it. If your problem is the only one that happens, it is impossible for a coder to predict and fix it.

Originally Posted by abroad

get this error:

Call to undefined function mcrypt_get_iv_size() in /var/www/htm/profile.php(2155) : eval()'d code on line 16

You don't have mcrypt installed.

[SABRSox]

I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in twitter.php on line 29

[smnet]

[high]* smnet is waiting for 1.1 [/high]

[Cybertims]

Update your password, it should have an IV parameter stored with it.

Can you be a bit clearer? Do you mean change it? Not sure what you mean by "update your password"

Cheers.

[drsli]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

Hm. Are you sure you uploaded the new tweet.php?

Yep, I?m sure. Here is the procedure I tried recently. I wiped out the username and password, saved the changes. I added the username and password, saved the changes to no success. I overwrote all files on the servers and re-imported the 1.03-version. To no success.

Then - I?m on the Mac-side - I tried out the program "Twitterific" and this prog gave me an alert about my password, warning me about an incompatibility with the twitter-api, cause my password contained non-alphanumeric characters. I changed the password to contain only alphanumeric characters and now all is working like a charm!

But I had to add a template-edit manually to get the "Tweet this post"-link working. I?m using the Template Modification System within the postbit too, maybe this prevented the link to show up.

Sorry for causing the confusion! But to my exoneration the twitter-browser-site accepts and works with non-alphanumeric-characters within the password, so I didn?t suspect any issues so far.

Thank you for this neat addon! Clicked Installed.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by SABRSox

I get the following error:


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in twitter.php on line 29

Hm. I will see about looking into that tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Cybertims

Can you be a bit clearer? Do you mean change it? Not sure what you mean by "update your password"

Cheers.

All you need to do is edit your options, and just retype your password. If it was stored without an IV, it won't be able to decrypt. Upon changing your password, it'll update and store the required variables with your password.

Originally Posted by drsli

Yep, I?m sure. Here is the procedure I tried recently. I wiped out the username and password, saved the changes. I added the username and password, saved the changes to no success. I overwrote all files on the servers and re-imported the 1.03-version. To no success.

Then - I?m on the Mac-side - I tried out the program "Twitterific" and this prog gave me an alert about my password, warning me about an incompatibility with the twitter-api, cause my password contained non-alphanumeric characters. I changed the password to contain only alphanumeric characters and now all is working like a charm!

But I had to add a template-edit manually to get the "Tweet this post"-link working. I?m using the Template Modification System within the postbit too, maybe this prevented the link to show up.

Sorry for causing the confusion! But to my exoneration the twitter-browser-site accepts and works with non-alphanumeric-characters within the password, so I didn?t suspect any issues so far.

Thank you for this neat addon! Clicked Installed.

Glad you figured it out.

[wmlvb]

Originally Posted by ragtek

Allright

In version 1.1 we added a tweetpopup menu to the navbar
Attachment 95799
For all users without js there will be a own page.

The second new thing(all followers of our tweet profil will know*g*) is, that now "everything" will work with ajax.

Hey can you tell me the code for making the "tweettpopup" and what file and where you put it int the file? Thanks for the help!

BTW what do you mean everything will work w/ ajax?? Thanks

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by wmlvb

Hey can you tell me the code for making the "tweettpopup" and what file and where you put it int the file? Thanks for the help!

BTW what do you mean everything will work w/ ajax?? Thanks

Sorry, but the tweet pop up will not appear until v1.1 is released. It requires significant code changes and additions to what is in v1.0.x. For this reason, it will not be "pre-released" as an individual feature to v1.0.x. And here's an AJAX screencast:

http://screencast.com/t/CkcUQkUErUm

Notice the time stamp doesn't change. (Cause there is NO reload!)