New Module: Twit-ee - show data from the Twitter API in EE templates

Hi George,

Trying to test this out, but I get an error on attempting to install

“Unable to locate the files needed to install this module”

Just thought I’d ping you 😊

Hi George,

nice addition. I was able to install the module, so no problem regarding that point (PHP 5.1.x, EE 1.6.7).

However, I have a small issue I already had with the the twitter_search plugin: The output is broken if the option “Enable GZIP Output?” is set to yes in the output and debugging preferences of EE.

In addition, it would be great if the module would be MSM friendly - e.g. store different twitter account details per MSM site (or allow to overwrite the default setting inside the EE tag).

BTW: I tried to use the project wiki but it seems so need some account edit a page there. Using the forums is less troublesome in that case 😊

Markus

ms - thanks for the report. I’ve amended the post to use this thread for bugs and feature requests.

I’m going to wait for it to be in the wild for a little longer and will then look at bugs and features like making it MSM compatible.

For me, I would need two things from this module - if it had them, I’d pay for it:

1) MSM compatibility. At this point, anything released for EE should be MSM compatible. I can’t consider using anything that isn’t.

2) The ability to display replies to a Tweet, preferable within a certain timeframe. So for example say I post an entry, which appears on Twitter. I’d like to be able to tell this module to pull in any @ replies that have come in from within the first, say, 20 minutes. Then I should be able to manually delete any that aren’t truly a direct reply to the entry. Kind of like what you see here: http://chris.pirillo.com/is-amazons-kindle-on-fire/ - that is done by way of Wordpress plugin though. Can Twit-ee already do this?

Seems like a really great module, George! Is there a way to format the {created_at} into a prettier form, possibly just Tue Feb 10 17:11?

ms wrote

The output is broken if the option “Enable GZIP Output?” is set to yes in the output and debugging preferences of EE.

This is fixed in version 1.0.1.

Deelicious wrote:

Is there a way to format the {created_at} into a prettier form, possibly just Tue Feb 10 17:11?

I’m not planning support lots of different time formats but thankfully PHP can take care of it for you.

Enable PHP in templates and then use this:

<?php
$created_at = strtotime("{created_at}");
echo date("D M j G:i ", $created_at);
?>

See the PHP date function if you want to change the formatting to pretty much anything else.

Using this method you could also compare the timestamp to now and format a “3 hours ago” or similar .

Thanks, George! Worked like a charm. 😊

I’ve installed the module and am getting this error when adding to my template.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/mysite/public_html/sys/modules/twitee/mod.twitee.php on line 28

I was using this piece of code in my template:

{exp:twitee:user_timeline refresh="5" limit="10"}
{if count == 1}<ul>{/if}
    <li>{text}</li>
{if count == total_results}</ul>{/if}
{/exp:twitee:user_timeline}

Thanks for the help.

Pat ;)

Pat,

are you sure your webspace is meeting the requirements - especially PHP 5.x? Code looks fine, but the error might imply you’re still using PHP 4.x.

Hi, thanks for your response. I thought I was on PHP 5, but I’m double checking now.

Pat 😊

Update: Am I php5 - but couldn’t get it to work so used the regular Twitter code off their website.

I was seeing the same error and I’m running PHP 5.1.6 (hosted at EngineHosting). It was sporadic though and while troubleshooting, I found that occasionally refreshing the PHP Info Utility page, it would instead show that I was running PHP Version 4.3.9

I have a note in with Nevin and crew to determine what’s going on.

When PHP 5.x is running, the module is a wonderful addition. Thanks for your work on this!

Update: It turns out that my site is on a cluster at EH that’s in the middle of an upgrade from PHP 4.x to PHP 5.1.6. It should be completed tonight and resolve the module errors I’m seeing.

How can I get links to link? I’m just getting plain text outputs, but I’d like to ensure when I post a link users can actually click it. This:

My tweet text & a link - http://tinyurl.com/1234

Should be:

My tweet text & a link - <a href="http://tinyurl.com/1234">http://tinyurl.com/1234</a>

Am I missing something really basic here?

I’m attempting to retrieve the status from friends using the {exp:twitee:friends} tag-pair, however the {text} variable keeps returning blank? Am I using this correctly? In the end, I basically want to get a list of the authenticated user’s status and the status of the friends, so I’m using the following:

{exp:twitee:user_timeline refresh="15" limit="1"}
<li>{name}: {text}</li>
{/exp:twitee:user_timeline}
{exp:twitee:friends refresh="15"}
<li>{name}: {text}</li>
{/exp:twitee:friends}

Any help would be great. All variables seem to work except the {text} variable, and I’m at a bit of a loss. Thanks again.

There’s a minor update available to this module allowing a separate account for MSM sites. To enable MSM compatibility please upload the new files then uninstall and reinstall the module. The download is available from Github

rick.prince wrote

How can I get links to link? I’m just getting plain text outputs, but I’d like to ensure when I post a link users can actually click it.

This is a feature enhancement - I’ve filed this on the github site.

jonny.gotham wrote

I’m attempting to retrieve the status from friends using the {exp:twitee:friends} tag-pair, however the {text} variable keeps returning blank? Am I using this correctly?

Yes it does look correct and I can replicate this as a bug. I have filed this as an issue and will address it in an upcoming build.

You can track the status of bugs and feature requests on the Github issues page