[beta release]PunBB Twitter (Page 2 of 4)

De-Luxis

Hello,
You don't need to change \pun_twitter\lang\English\pun_twitter.php. That is language file.

To update on topic post only, Uncheck Update Posts from Settings->Features->Pun Twitter section

There are short notes for you.

thanks

sorry for delay. I have just seen your PM.

Please try this:
http://forum.projanmo.com/extensions/pun_twitter.zip

let me know the update.

Hello I am sorry to hear that it still didn't help you. however, if u want me to help u further please PM me punbb admin login and ftp login info.

i will check when get a moment.

regards

hello,
thanks for your compliments.

to.ly short url is not working fine for me (both topic/post) when I uncheck it. however, twitter now uses bit.ly now by default. Are you using the latest version?

anyone have any idea of extending this extensions? I will work on that if I like the idea .

Hello,
Thanks for posting the screen shot. It is apparent that when you uncheck the To.ly short url box, my extension is not shortening the URL. However, twitter itself now uses bit.ly to shorten url. Here nothing to do on our part. Again now idea why it is not shortened in 3rd link!

http://forum.projanmo.com/extensions/pun_twitter.zip

Try that link ^

One more feature request: Is it possible to extract some content of new topic/reply into tweet?

I just saw the error "Post too long/not set", and the new topic wasn't posted to Twitter.  Presumably this is because the topic title made the whole thing longer than 140 characters.  Is it possible to automatically cut the title (with an elipsis - '...') where necessary to ensure that a twitter post will always be made?

Rajuru - any thoughts on my problem? (one post above yours)

"I just saw the error "Post too long/not set", and the new topic wasn't posted to Twitter.  Presumably this is because the topic title made the whole thing longer than 140 characters.  Is it possible to automatically cut the title (with an elipsis - '...') where necessary to ensure that a twitter post will always be made?"

Ah yes, I didn't see your edit before I replied!

I am using the version of the extension from here: http://forum.projanmo.com/extensions/pun_twitter.zip (because the other one didn't work).

In manifest.xml I see the following code (it is the only place where mb_strlen()/strlen() are used:

        <hook id="co_common"><![CDATA[
            $pun_extensions_used = array_merge(isset($pun_extensions_used) ? $pun_extensions_used : array(), array($ext_info['id']));
            function ShortenURL($url) {
              $ch = curl_init();
              curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://to.ly/api.php?longurl=".urlencode($url));
              curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
              curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
              curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
              curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
              $shorturl = curl_exec ($ch);
              curl_close ($ch);
              return $shorturl;
            }
            
            function TextLength($str){
                if(function_exists('mb_strlen')){
                /* Set internal character encoding to UTF-8 */
                    mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
                    return mb_strlen($str);
                } else {
                    return strlen($str);
                }
            }
            
            function hashtag($str,$tags=''){
            
            }

            
        ]]></hook>

It looks like mb_strlen() is already used (if available).  What do you think?

Thanks rajuru.

I tried it with the same topic as before.  I don't see the error message now, but neither is the post submitted to twitter You can see the relevant post here: http://www.noisyneighbours.net/forum/to … and-cheap/

Any thoughts?

EDIT: it's fixed if I enable the to.ly URL shortening (Twitter seems to reject a Tweet with >160 chars, even if it would be smaller *after* the URL is shortened.  If the URL is shortened before sending the Tweet, it accepts it.

But I've also noticed that the To.ly URL uses the filename scheme (viewtopic.php?51 or similar). Would it be possible to use the URL rewritten address, for better traffic generation (links from twitter will include the topic title in the URL)?

Thanks for your great work, this is a brilliant extension!