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vBulletin 2 Twitter - Take Your News Straight To Twitter!
Version: .1b, by AHealthForum AHealthForum is offline
Developer Last Online: Jul 2012 Show Printable Version Email this Page

Category: Add-On Releases - Version: 3.8.1 Rating:
Released: 03-15-2009 Last Update: 03-15-2009 Installs: 132
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vBulletin2 Twitter Courtesy A Health Forum http://ahealthforum.com
Special Thanks to Jarvis From http://seovb.com for help
vbtotwitt.php copyright Vojtech Semecky released under the terms of GPL
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This modification will take one of your latest news threads and post it directly to your twitter account. You must have RSS enabled for this modification to work. You can specify a forum to pull the content from using external.php?f=FORUMID

The RSS feed will post your thread title directly into your Twitter account, and then create a link back using TinyURL. The links are automatically converted into tinyurl.com links via the TinyURL API


Install instructions

1. Upload the includes folder into your forum root. This will automatically place the 2 scripts need to operate this into the "includes/cron/" folder
2. Install the product-ahealthforumcomvbtwit.xml file via the Product Manager in your adminCP
3. Navigate to vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> vBulletin 2 Twitter and enter your name and password.
4. Hit Save and Wait 2 minutes
5. View your twitter account to confirm that an update was posted.
6. Enter the URL to your forum feed.

Notice: By default for testing purposes this makes one tweet announcing you've installed vB2Twitter You are free to delete this tweet as it is for testing purposes only!!!!

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vBulletin 2 Twitter Options

1. Twitter Username: This is your Twitter.com username. If you don't have one yet, you can get one for free at http://twitter.com

2. Twitter Password: This is your password for your twitter account. Notice that its not hashed or encypted so anyone with adminCP access can view it. If you can't trust those who have your AdminCP information with such details, then this mod isn't for you sorry.

3. Feed URL: This can be to any sites feed if you want, but I suggest pointing it to your news forum and creating a prefix such as [Breaking News] to make the most of this. Your twitter posts will then be prefixed with [Breaking News] Thread Title link to thread.

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Again, this modification will take the latest thread from the forum RSS feed you specify. I don't beleive in spamming on twitter with useless crap, so I've made this modification to only take one thread at a time from your forums RSS feed.


Trouble Shooting:

If it does not automatically update to your account. Go into the scheduled tasks manage and run the task manually.

external.php gives a blank page. Enable RSS from your vBulletin Admin Control Panel.

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Old 03-16-2009, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by lord_of_chaos View Post
Twitterfeed.com does only run the Cronjob every 30 Minutes...

@AHealthForum:
1. Could you advertise a little bit less inside your product? "HealthForum" everywhere annoys me.
Its not every where? And sure next time i create a product and share i'll keep your feelings in mind

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2. This mod always posts the last RSS-item into my Twitter Account. It doesn't care that the item is two weeks old and that it have been posted before.

My Twitter profile looked like that:
- "News from 2.03.09"
- "Some other handmade Twit"
- "News from 2.03.09"
This is does do, I haven't been able to find a work around, but i haven't actively looked for one yet either as I just use my twitter account to post updates from the forums and this is good enough for that

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not working, thank you
Your welcome?
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Didn't work for me either.
Ran the scheduled task manually and got an error message posted to my twitter page.
Uninstalled for now.
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Didn't work for me either.
Ran the scheduled task manually and got an error message posted to my twitter page.
Uninstalled for now.
Make sure your have your RSS enabled on your forums, and cURL support on the server.

This may also only work with PHP5 as i haven't tested on PHP4 yet


I'm in the process of moving to a another hosting company that should let me test this in PHP4 and PHP5 to see if that maybe a problem for some users.
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I get wrong TinyURL.com link.
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this exported something to twitter, but didn't do it properly.

what was tweeted was
Code:
<![CDATA[BostonLove News: Version Upgrade, Database Optimization
is there something i can do to fix that?
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this exported something to twitter, but didn't do it properly.

what was tweeted was
Code:
<![CDATA[BostonLove News: Version Upgrade, Database Optimization
is there something i can do to fix that?
I'm not sure, i've never seen it include that.

Try viewing your RSS feed in the browser and see if thats the title.

If not, try deleting the tweet, and then waiting for it to update again.
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sorry for my dumbness but how do i "Enable RSS from your vBulletin Admin Control Panel." i cant find it

Thanks
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sorry for my dumbness but how do i "Enable RSS from your vBulletin Admin Control Panel." i cant find it

Thanks
AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> External Data provider
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AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> External Data provider
Nice one thanks works Ace <3:up:
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