**Updated** LG Twitter 2.0 - Update your twitter status from EE

Never mind, strange behaviors at first install but it works, great extension!!!

Anybody know if this extension supports SAEF?

is it possible to make the {category_name} available? I need to build my URLs with category names and can’t seem to make that happen. thanks.

Sorry… solved already 😊

Can someone confirm something for me - if I have a post queued that will go live in the future, and I go back to it and tick “yes, post this to twitter”, and save the entry, is the plugin aware enough to queue the tweet too?

In answer to my own question, no it doesn’t. As soon as you tick the update twitter box and save your post, it will post to your timeline. Also, {entry_id} doesn’t work in custom updates (or doesn’t work until the post is ‘live’ - I’m not sure).

{entry_id} doesn’t work.

Is it possible to get {entry_id} working?

{entry_id} doesn’t work.

Is it possible to get {entry_id} working?

It would be very useful (along with scheduling tweets) - I’m using Simon Collison’s short URL technique, which is kinda redundant without an entry ID…

{entry_id} doesn’t work.

Is it possible to get {entry_id} working?

It would be very useful (along with scheduling tweets) - I’m using Simon Collison’s short URL technique, which is kinda redundant without an entry ID…

Same thing here. {entry_id} doesn’t work here either, although it shows it in the docs. Its not listed in the variables for substitution either though.

HI Leevi -

So, I’m trying to use LG Twitter on a client site, because it would be a great feature for them to have.

I’m having some issues using 2.0.1 in tandem with Brandon Kelly’s FF Matrix in FieldFrame. When both Field Frame and LG Twitter are enabled, I lose the ability to add additional rows in my FF Matrix…the (+) completely disappears in the publish screen.

I was wondering if you have any ideas on what might be causing this. I’m kind of committed to FFMatrix, but it would be great to be able to use both for this client.

Thanks a ton for this extension. It will be really helpful.

Cheers,

Josh

Still no luck with the {entry_id} anyone managed to get that working? Unusable for me without it and I really want to use this as its exactly what I need and I love Leevi’s extensions etc.

Hi all,

I love this extension, but found that I need to add in URL shortening. I thought I would share with you all what I did.

Things you should know…

1. It only uses http://bit.ly/ for the URL shortening
2. You need to get a free username and API key

So, to get started…

• Open /system/extensions/ext.lg_twitter_ext.php file.
• After line 948 (which is “$twitter = new Twitter($this->settings[‘twitter_username’], $this->settings[‘twitter_password’]);”) add in:

$status = $this->_shortenURLs($status);

• Scroll to the bottom of the file, and just before the final “}” add in:

function _shortenURLs($status)
    {
        preg_match_all('/\\b(https?|ftp|file):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]/i', $status, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
        $counter = 0;
        foreach ($matches as $val) {
            $status = str_replace($matches[$counter][0], $this->_getSmallLink($val[0]), $status);
            $counter++;
        }
        return $status;
    }

    function _getSmallLink($longurl){  
    
        $login = "MYLOGIN";
        $apikey = "MYAPIKEY";
        
        $url = "http://api.bit.ly/shorten?version=2.0.1&longUrl;=$longurl&login;=$login&apiKey;=$apikey&format=json&history=1";  
      
        $s = curl_init();  
        curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_URL, $url);  
        curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_HEADER,false);  
        curl_setopt($s,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);  
        $result = curl_exec($s);  
        curl_close( $s );  
      
        $obj = json_decode($result, true);  
        return $obj["results"]["$longurl"]["shortUrl"];  
    }

• Change “MYLOGIN” to your login
• Change “MYAPIKEY” to your API Key

That’s it. Save the file and test it.

A couple of things I would like to further add to this extension:

1. Allow the username and API key to be changed in the extensions settings page
2. Add in an “Auto shorten URLs?” “yes/no” drop-down setting to the extensions settings page.
3. Add in a checkbox to each entry to “Shorten URLs in this tweet?” in the Twitter tab.

Cheers.

Andrew…

Thanks agun,

These features are already available in the latest dev version.

GitHub: http://bit.ly/6LUcbP Settings form image: http://bit.ly/db3hIf

Awww… crap!

ha ha.