Twitter Feed

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Twitter Feed

paulOr

Enjoy :)

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version v1.5 of Twitter Feed.

paulOr

New version, might aswell :) fixed some bugs that appear when you enter an invalid username.
Let me know what you think or what else you would like it to do :)

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version v1.6 of Twitter Feed.

paulOr

OK LAST TIME TODAY :D

your now able to choose how many tweets you want to show, 1 - 10, if less than 1, it shows 5(default) if more than 10 it shows 10.

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version v1.6 of Twitter Feed.

chaoflux

I like this, but it should also have a link to the persons twitter profile somewhere

paulOr

good idea :) ill add soon

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version v1.6.1 of Twitter Feed.

Wanderer

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /path/to/forum/extensions/Twitter/default.php on line 52

Warning: file_get_contents(http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:OACDPodcast&rpp=5) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /path/to/forum/extensions/Twitter/default.php on line 52

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /path/to/forum/extensions/Twitter/xml2array.class.php on line 86

Yes it is a valid Twitter account!

paulOr

You need to edit php.ini and set allow_url_fopen to ON, which will allow you to get offsite data (from twitter).

Wanderer

No way I can do that, my host won't let me.

Looks like I'll have to revert to other widgets that don't require this setting.

Thanks anyway.

paulOr

:(

awpti

Why are you using file_get_contents?

You should use CURL and the available API to fetch the JSON-based content.

eg;

http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:some_user_name

You can then use json_decode() to drop it into a standard array and drop a little foreach/while magic on it.

Much easier than doing a file_get_contents on the XML feed. Not mentioning that fact that most people won't enable allow_url_fopen since it's a horrendously unsafe "feature".

If I can figure out the Vanilla methodology, I'll make the change and toss a patch/diff to you.

awpti

Here's a quick example;

<?php<br />$tweets = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:GeekApp";

$tw = curl_init();
curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_URL, $tweets);
curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$twi = curl_exec($tw);

var_dump(json_decode($twi));
?>

No, I don't tweet very often.

paulOr

awpti
iv created a better way of doing it and will release the recode soon! thanks for the suggestions though.

Lussumo Bot

Uploaded version v2 of Twitter Feed.

Muzik

hi i installed twitter v1 and 2, but dont see in the page nothing, in settings twitter post can see it
consumer key - consumer secret - user auth key - user auth secret, what is this?
the user of foro can see your post from twitter every one? :( how? thanks

BobbyNorris

Hi, works a treat.. thanks!

any ideas how I go about turning @usernames or #tags into links automatically?

paulOr

I have added hovercards to take care of @usernames :)

joshdj

Neat plugin, do you have this for Vanilla 2 as well?

paulOr

I havent had time to start playing with Vanilla 2 yet, but rest assure when there is a stable release ill make a new one :)