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NoWhereMan

Download from SVN

see the result on my blog

This plugin reads json from twitter and post your last tweet filing it under a category of choice; this way you can:

a) tell which post is from twitter and which is not (with {if in_array(category_id, $category)} in your tpl), and theme it in this regard: personally I use the conditional to {include file=entry-twitter.tpl} instead of {include file=entry-default.tpl} (where entry-twitter.tpl is ad-hoc)
b) exclude it from the main feed letting your users subscribe to /?x=feed:rss2;not:YOUR_CAT_ID

the post contains the ID of the tweet as $subject and the text as $content; this hack is to avoid problems with the prettyurls plugin, but also lets you link to the actual tweet from your blog

also, it caches the last post_id and last check time; the timestamps are saved as simple text files under CACHE_DIR (I don't know if it's worth turn them into config prefs, since they are actually cached data)

the auto-post process hooks the 'shutdown' event instead of 'init', because the twitter server is slow and tends to go down which means long response time, which means your blog will look frozen on loading: using "shutdown" the page should be already be spit out completely, so your visitor shouldn't notice anything

URLs are captured and turned into [url]myurl[/url] at the moment; a further extension might feed them into a [oembed=myurl] tag (see oembed plugin) and/or auto-recognize+turn into <img> images

Caveats

* the first visitor which will trigger the update process won't see your new tweet unless (s)he decides to refresh the page (I don't know if it's worth thinking about a way to fix this)
* only the LAST tweet is posted, so if you tweet twice in a last_check period, only the last will be posted.
* in order to keep it simple, PHP5 json functions are used, so, no luck for PHP4 here

(the custom string to display post time -- which is pulled from twitter as well -- is just a simple function I've found on the web)

kierownik

Just downloaded the plugin and get this error after trying to update:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function plugin_twitter_updatenow() in /home/*****/public_html/fp-plugins/twitter/plugin.twitter.php on line 186

And it adds a twitter ID at the bottom of my page, see http://kierownik.nl

It also adds the twitter ID as title of the post, could this be done differently?

NoWhereMan

Posted By: kierownikJust downloaded the plugin and get this error after trying to update:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function plugin_twitter_updatenow() in /home/*****/public_html/fp-plugins/twitter/plugin.twitter.php on line 186

fixed, thank you

And it adds a twitter ID at the bottom of my page, seehttp://kierownik.nl

~~where? do you mean under "Laatste 10 berichten" ? that's because it's showing the last title~~

I left out a debug statement, now it shouldn't show up anymore :)

It also adds the twitter ID as title of the post, could this be done differently?

that's because you're not supposed to show that.

here's what I do in my theme:

index.tpl:

			{entry}
				{if $categories|@istweet} {* tweet *}
					{include file='entry-tweet.tpl'}
				{else}
					{include file='entry-default.tpl'}
				{/if}
			{/entry}

(I've added a 'istweet' modifier for convenience)


and here is my entry-tweet.tpl

<code>
{$date|date_format_daily:'<h2 class="date">%A, %B %e</h2>'}			
	<div id="{$id}" class="entry twitter">
				{include file=shared:entryadminctrls.tpl}
				{* LOOK MA! NO TITLE *}
				<div class="entry-content">
				{$content|tag:the_content}
				</div> <!-- #entry-content -->
				
				<div class="footnotes">
				<a class="date" href="http://twitter.com/{$plugin_twitter_userid}/status/{$subject}">{$date|distanceOfTimeInWords} ago</a>
				 - <a href="{$id|link:comments_link}#comments">{$comments|tag:comments_number}
				{if $views}(<strong>{$views}</strong> views){/if}</a>
				</div>
				</ul>
	</div>

and finally, my CSS:



.twitter p {
   margin:0 !important;
}


.twitter .footnotes {
	margin-top: .2em;
	height:18px;
	background: url(../imgs/16-twitter.png) no-repeat;
	display:block;
}

.twitter .footnotes .date {
	color:#888;
	padding-left:18px;
}




.footnotes {
	font-size: x-small;
	margin-top: 3em;
	border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
}

what would you rather do?

svennid

Hi NoWhereMan,

Again my question is it possible to show all tweets on a static or separate page?

Cheers

Svennid

kierownik

Thanks NoWhereMan, almost everything worked :)

I had to change line 197 from
$this->smarty->assign('success', updatenow()? 2:3);
to

$this->smarty->assign('success', $_o->updatenow()? 2:3);
because it still gave me the error that the function did not exist.

The rest works like a charm, thanks for that.

I have also translated it to dutch, how can I send you the file?

NoWhereMan

thanks, fixed.

if you use the template above, please be aware there was an error in entry-twitter.tpl, which is now fixed.

there was a hardcoded link to my own twitter, now I've fixed the plugin to inject a handy {$plugin_twitter_userid} to your theme :) I've fixed the example accordingly

bye

NoWhereMan

Posted By: svennidHi NoWhereMan,

Again my question is it possible to show all tweets on a static or separate page?

Cheers

Svennid

it is not the purpose of this plugin. You can use the FrontPage plugin to hide the "tweets" category (i.e. the category you chose for tweets) from the frontpage. Hidden categories work only with the SVN version of FlatPress.

laborix

The german language pack for the Twitter plugin can be get here:

Das deutsche Sprachpaket f

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