Show Thread Enhancements - retweet thread

I'm not sure this would be a "mod", more of a howto, as it is incredibly easy to do. If it's thought of as more of a howto, one of the mods can move it to the appropriate section.

This "mod" will allow your members to retweet your threads without leaving the forum page itself, and show a count of how many times the thread has been "tweeted" . It involves adding one line to 2 templates, that's it.

in postbit (and postbit_legacy), look for

$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]

and after, add

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']">
<br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
</if>

This will put this directly UNDER the username, which should work for most.

Demo of how this works? See this page. Look right under the username.

Updated to show under only the first post!

[gordietbh]

if you use the following:

<if condition="!$GLOBALS['FIRSTPOSTID']">
<span style="float: left;" class="smallfont"><script type="text/javascript">
tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
tweetmeme_source = 'TwitterUsername';
tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.yourURL.com/vb/showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script></span>
</if>

it will only display the link for the first post in each thread.

setting "showthread.php?t=$thread[threadid]" will use the thread ID for each twitter post instead of the URL of the page being viewed.

The benefits of this are that if somebody views a thread by showthread.php?p=1234 or showpost.php?p=1234 they will all get classified under the same tweet. Otherwise you will have different counts depending on which URL a user uses to view the page.

[gordietbh]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

Some of my members have been asking, but does anyone know the correct condition to not show the tweetme button in pm's?
since it would be pointless to have it in pms

You can wrap it in this:

<if condition="!$post['forwardlink']"></if>

[a9eel]

thanks

[DoubleGlasses]

Will this be made available for Vbulletin 4.0?

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by gordietbh

You can wrap it in this:

<if condition="!$post['forwardlink']"></if>

That worked for me! Thanks!