Module: Twitter new posts

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File Name	File Size		Posted by	Date
twitter-1.0.1.tar.gz	2.8 KB	open | download	Brian Moon	05/03/2008	Read message
twitter-2.0.0.zip	16.4 KB	open | download	Thomas Seifert	10/13/2010	Read message

This module sends the subject and URL (via tiny URL) to Twitter. You can then publish the Twitter feed and your users can follow things on Twitter.

Well, this is a quick new release. My copy editor, aka Maurice pointed out some typos.

Brian - Cowboy Ninja Coder - Personal Blog - Twitter

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/2008 10:15PM by Brian Moon.

A nice addition to this may be to add some code to grab people's Twitter status and display it somehow in their profile.

Brian - Cowboy Ninja Coder - Personal Blog - Twitter

Brian,

Thanks much for this module. I'm wondering if there's a way to limit the Twitter posts to threads within a certain forum... For example, I'd like the Twitter posts to be the publicly available ones, but I have an admin only forum from which I don't want Twitter posts. I didn't see anything in the Read Me file for something like this...

I don't want to take this thread off-topic, but could someone please post a simple paragraph or two explaining the desirability of using Twitter for this purpose? I don't really "get" Twitter you see, and therefore can't currently see what advantage it would have over RSS.

Cheers,

/\dam

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I'm not sure it has a real advantage over RSS, but there's a possibility that some people check their Twitter home page and would prefer to be notified that way, rather than RSS. I just think that some people would prefer that option.

OK, interesting. I'm all for diversity, I was just curious to know if I was missing out on some obvious killer feature of Twitter.

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For anyone that cares, I've spent some time working on this module to get it to do what I like.

The changes I've made allow you to choose the forums from which tweets are made. I've not made it compatible with any sort of vroot stuff, just forums. Also, the code is probably a little messy, as I'm not really a programmer. :)

Anyway, below are the two files I changed.

settings.php

Language: PHP
<?php
 
// Make sure that this script is loaded from the admin interface.
if (!defined(';PHORUM_ADMIN';)) return;
 
$forum_list_global = phorum_get_forum_info(1,0);
 
// Save settings in case this script is run after posting
// the settings form.
if (count($_POST)) {
 
    $settings = array(
        "username"  => (string)$_POST["username"],
        "password"  => (string)$_POST["password"],
        "new_posts" => (bool)$_POST["new_posts"],
    );
 
	$settings["forum_list"] = array();
		foreach ($_POST["forum_list"] as $v => $k ) {
			array_push($settings["forum_list"],$v);
		}
 
    $PHORUM["mod_twitter"] = $settings;
 
    if (!phorum_db_update_settings(array(';mod_twitter';=>$settings))) {
        $error = ';Database error while updating settings.';;
    } else {
        phorum_admin_okmsg(';Settings Updated';);
    }
}
 
// We build the settings form by using the PhorumInputForm object.
include_once ';./include/admin/PhorumInputForm.php';;
$frm =& new PhorumInputForm(';';, ';post';, ';Save';);
$frm->hidden(';module';, ';modsettings';);
$frm->hidden(';mod';, ';twitter';);
 
// Here we display an error in case one was set by saving
// the settings before.
if (!empty($error)){
    phorum_admin_error($error);
}
 
$frm->addbreak(';Edit settings for the Twitter module';);
 
// Twitter Username
$row = $frm->addrow
    ( ';Twitter Username ';,
      $frm->text_box
          ( ';username';,
            $PHORUM[';mod_twitter';][';username';],
            30 ) );
$frm->addhelp
    ( $row,
      ';Twitter Username';,
      "Enter the name you use to log in to Twitter." );
 
// Twitter Password
$row = $frm->addrow
    ( ';Twitter Password ';,
      $frm->text_box
          ( ';password';,
            $PHORUM[';mod_twitter';][';password';],
            30 ) );
$frm->addhelp
    ( $row,
      ';Twitter Password';,
      "Enter the password you use to log in to Twitter." );
 
// Send new topics or all posts
$row = $frm->addrow
    ( "Type of Posts ",
      $frm->select_tag
          ( "new_posts",
            array( "All Posts", "New Topics" ),
            $PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["new_posts"] ) );
$frm->addhelp
    ( $row,
      ';Type of Posts';,
      "Select if you want to send all posts or only new topics to Twitter." );
 
// Select forums from which to send posts
 
$checkboxes = ';';;
 	    foreach ($forum_list_global as $forum_list_id => $forum_list_path) {
 	        $enabled = in_array($forum_list_id,$PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["forum_list"]);
		if ($enabled === FALSE)
			$enabled = 0;
		else
			$enabled = 1;
 	        $checkboxes .= $frm->checkbox("forum_list[$forum_list_id]", "1", "", $enabled) . " $forum_list_path<br/>";
 	    }
 	    $frm->addrow("Twitter new posts for which forums?", $checkboxes);
 
// Show settings form
$frm->show();
 
?>

twitter.php

Language: PHP
<?php
 
function mod_twitter_url(){
    global $PHORUM;
 
    $PHORUM["DATA"]["URL"]["TWITTER"] = "http://www.twitter.com/".$PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["username"];
}
 
function mod_twitter_posts($message){
 
    global $PHORUM;
 
    if( ($PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["new_posts"]==0 || $message["parent_id"]==0) && in_array($message[';forum_id';],$PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["forum_list"]) ){
 
        // Format the read URL.
        $url = phorum_get_url(
            PHORUM_FOREIGN_READ_URL,
            $message[';forum_id';], $message[';thread';], $message[';message_id';]
        );
 
        // Strip auth data from the URL, if availble.
        if (isset($_POST[PHORUM_SESSION_LONG_TERM])) {
            $url = preg_replace(
                ';!,?'; . PHORUM_SESSION_LONG_TERM.';='; .
                urlencode($_POST[PHORUM_SESSION_LONG_TERM]).';!';,
                ';';, $url
            );
        }
 
        // fetch a tiny URL.
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, ';url=';.urlencode($url));
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ';http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php';);
        $response = curl_exec($ch);
        if ($response && preg_match(';!http://tinyurl\.com/\w+!';, $response)) {
            $url = $response;
        }
        curl_close($ch);
 
        $status = urlencode($message["subject"]." ".$url);
 
        $curl_handle = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,"http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json");
        curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_POST,1);
        curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"status=$status");
        curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERPWD, $PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["username"].":".$PHORUM["mod_twitter"]["password"]);
        $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
        curl_close($curl_handle);
 
    }
 
    return $message;
 
}
 
?>

It appears to work as I intended it for now. Just figured I'd throw this out there in case anyone else wanted this feature and it can be cleaned up and worked into the official plugin, if desired.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2009 08:47PM by rtetzloff.

Anyone have any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong (except for the obvious wrong name or password). The modules all kick in and I have it configured, but no posts ever show up on the twitter page.


I'm trying to run this on 5.1.16a, you think it's necessary to upgrade to 5.2?

The module was written with 5.2 and not tested on 5.1, so it would be an option to at least test that out. You could setup a test 5.2 Phorum with that module to see if that would work for you. If the module doesn't work in your test-5.2 either, then some more investigation is needed to see what causes the issue.

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Yep, needed 5.2. Users are having a fit, but such is change.