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

This is working consistently for you guys?

Everything seems to be working fine except that when I use this code:

{exp:twitee:user_timeline limit="5" refresh="3"}
                    {if count == 1}<ul>{/if}
                        <li>{text}</li>
                    {if count == total_results}</ul>{/if}
                  {/exp:twitee:user_timeline}

For some reason the opening and closing ul tags are not appearing. Any ideas on why this could be.

solution to my post is to wrap the “count” in curly braces i.e. {count}

I’m having the same problem as Ian Ebden and Benjamin David. Used a variety of code but nothing is showing up at all. In fact its actually stopping the rest of the page from displaying at all!

I bet its something simple!

Hey George, Sean Smith found an error here, I’ll email you with some more details.

Everything is working as expected - almost.

Hash tags are being converted to links, but the generated link includes the hash tag, instead of % 23 (space added to prevent auto-conversion) as is required by Twitter search.

I believe what is happening is the module is converting # to % 23, but EE is then converting it back to #. I’ve tried messing around with line 851 of mod.twitee.php, but haven’t had any luck.

Any thoughts on a fix?

This tweet cut off right before the ampersand and gives this error message:

Warning: Twitee::_parse_status() [function.Twitee--parse-status]: unterminated entity reference Osugi Ren as "shockers": <a href="http://bit.ly/2gU1O">http://bit.ly/2gU1O</a> in /home/myacct/public_html/mydir/systemfolder/modules/twitee/mod.twitee.php on line 433

I ran into the same issue today. I fixed it by replacing this:

$status->text = $this->twitterStatusUrlConverter($status->text);
$status->text = $TYPE->parse_type($status->text, $prefs);
$status->text = $REGX->xss_clean($status->text);

with this:

$text = htmlspecialchars($status->text);
$text = $this->twitterStatusUrlConverter($text);
$text = $TYPE->parse_type($text, $prefs);
$status->text = $REGX->xss_clean($text);

in both the _parse_basic_user and _parse_status functions.

Something’s gone wacky. All the twitters in my “twitee” list are showing today’s date instead of the twitter “created_at” post date. Is it something to do with the Host server it’s on and Daylight Saving, which just clicked over where I am? Did Twitter itself maybe change something?

I’m using EE 1.6.8, if that matters.

EDIT MUCH LATER: Didn’t realise the standard time “format” EE tag doesn’t work for it. Strange thing to miss out.

How do you format the date in this module

I have the time for {created_at) appearing as Thu Apr 15 11:09:55 +0000 2010

and want to get rid of the year and the +0000 so it is just Thu Apr 15 11:09:55

Many Thanks

Dont know if this is a bug… But my client pointed out that they wanted url’s opened in a new window… if you look at the code for a link, it says:

<a href="http://lotidningen.lo.se/?id_item=27978" rel="extenal">

Shouldn’t it be:

<a href="http://lotidningen.lo.se/?id_item=27978" rel="external">

/Henrik

Hi there,

Even though I’ve entered the right username and password, I keep getting this error when I use some of the example code in a template:

Sorry, Twitter seems to be down.

Here’s the example code I’ve copied and pasted into a template:

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

Twitter seems to be working fine and I can’t see any issues reported on the Twitter API status page. I’ve also noticed that if I enter an incorrect password in the Module settings page, I get the same error message about Twitter being down.

I’m pretty sure I have cURL installed on this server as I also needed that for the Google Analytics extension to work.

Any ideas about this at all?

Thanks.

I ran into the same issue today. I fixed it by replacing this:

$status->text = $this->twitterStatusUrlConverter($status->text);
$status->text = $TYPE->parse_type($status->text, $prefs);
$status->text = $REGX->xss_clean($status->text);

with this:

$text = htmlspecialchars($status->text);
$text = $this->twitterStatusUrlConverter($text);
$text = $TYPE->parse_type($text, $prefs);
$status->text = $REGX->xss_clean($text);

in both the _parse_basic_user and _parse_status functions.

@Chris - Just wanted to say thanks for this. I was struggling through the module PHP and ready to try something different. Works like a gem now!

Sorry, Twitter seems to be down. Here’s the example code I’ve copied and pasted into a template:

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

Twitter seems to be working fine and I can’t see any issues reported on the Twitter API status page. I’ve also noticed that if I enter an incorrect password in the Module settings page, I get the same error message about Twitter being down. I’m pretty sure I have cURL installed on this server as I also needed that for the Google Analytics extension to work. Any ideas about this at all?

The default timeout for cURL execution within the module is set to 1 second if no timeout parameter is given.

For those suffering these symptoms and want a quick fix, just add the timeout parameter:

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

And, for a more permanent solution change the default timeout value; mod.twitee.php line 169 reads:

$this->timeout = ( ! $TMPL->fetch_param('timeout')) ? '1' : $TMPL->fetch_param('timeout');

Simply change the default value ‘1’ to the desired number of seconds (5-10 seconds seems reasonable).

Hope this helps.

Hi Cue,

Sorry for the delay in replying, and thanks for the pointer, much appreciated.

Thanks.