Add-On Releases - vBulletin 2 Twitter - Take Your News Straight To Twitter!

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.

[SBlueman]

Is this modification now dead? Is there anyone who can help solve the issues people are having?

[SBlueman]

BTW, it looks like this modification is a re-write of some sorts of this open source modification:

http://paulstamatiou.com/stammy-scri...tter-using-php

Don't know if that helps out to any of the php-saavy people out there who might be using this modification and would be willing to help us in need.

[SBlueman]

This is now beyond frustrating....this was the perfect modification for my site's needs and now it has stopped working out of the blue and the mod author is completely AWOL even though this is marked as a supported modification.

[SBlueman]

No support....

***uninstalled***

[A825F933D42B]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Bist deutsch oder?
Welche Datei und welche Zeile?
Ja die Umlaute sind wohl das Problem.

Ja, aber ich schreib trotzdem in Englisch, f?r die anderen ;-)
Just write on line 24, of twitask.php, just where the error message of the add-on occures:

} else { die('Error: RSS file not found, dude.'); }

$title = str_replace("<![CDATA[", "", "$title");
$title = str_replace("]]>", "", "$title");
$title = str_replace("&", "and", "$title");

$title = utf8_encode ($title); //for the bloody umlaute

[m2006]

Thank you for nice mods

[Daisyboo]

What is the url I use to use more than one forum for Tweets?
Not sure I have this working.

[hoangzu]

Originally Posted by A825F933D42B

I added the following code:

$title = utf8_encode ($title); //for the bloody umlaute

just after the lines fixing the CDATA-issue. Now, all Umlaute and special characters will be submitted to Twitter. Just if it helps someone else too

Can you PL tell me where I can add this code into?
Thank you

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

This is now beyond frustrating....this was the perfect modification for my site's needs and now it has stopped working out of the blue and the mod author is completely AWOL even though this is marked as a supported modification.

there are several mods that do this but much better.. This one (vBulletin Tweet Poster!) will even link back to your site as the source link :up:
and it works prefect

[SomeDude-GP]

rss not found.. DUDE