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ITDiver

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Hey
Can it?
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Dirk

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I'm afraid not, although it would probably make for a cute plugin ...

bye, Dirk
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ITDiver

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Sure would!...( hoping now some Plugin Developers see this thread ) :wink:
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Those developers wait for you to see the bounties' page (not wink).
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there is a service which does that. i am forgetting its name.

It takes your RSS and posts it on your twitter.

ok here it is http://twitterfeed.com/

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worldfooty

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... except twitterfeed doesn't work with Geeklog RSS. It complains:

Please make sure your feed contains valid pubDate entries

It would also accept GUID.

Pretty much a showstopper as far as I can see. No idea whether it's easy to fix?


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No idea whether it's easy to fix?


Easy enough: Make sure you're using a RSS 2.0 feed.

bye, Dirk
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::Ben

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Yes we can.

Create a first static page for your eyes only call sendTwitterMsg (ID) and change username and password in code

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function postToTwitter($username,$password,$message){

    $host = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=".urlencode(stripslashes(urldecode($message)));

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $host);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    // Look at the returned header
    $resultArray = curl_getinfo($ch);

    curl_close($ch);

    if($resultArray['http_code'] == "200"){
         $twitter_status='Your message has been sended! <a href="http://twitter.com/'.$username.'">See your profile</a>';
    } else {
         $twitter_status="Error posting to Twitter. Retry";
    }
        return $twitter_status;
}

/* ---------------------------------------- */
// Change these parameters with your Twitter
// user name and Twitter password.
/* ---------------------------------------- */
$twitter_username ='username';
$twitter_psw ='password';
/* ---------------------------------------- */

/* Don't change the code belove
/* ---------------------------------------- */

if(isset($_POST['twitter_msg'])){
$twitter_message=$_POST['twitter_msg'];
if(strlen($twitter_message)<1){ $error=1; } else { $twitter_status=postToTwitter($twitter_username, $twitter_psw, $twitter_message); } }
/* ---------------------------------------- */

 


Then create a second static page still for your eyes only with this code and change url to point at your first page

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echo '<h2>Post a message on Twitter</h2>';

if(isset($_POST['twitter_msg']) && !isset($error)){
echo '<div class="msg"><?php echo $twitter_status ?></div>';
} else if(isset($error)){
echo '<div class="msg">Error: please insert a message!</div>';
 }
echo '<p><strong>What are you doing?</strong></p>' .
'<form action="url_to_my_insertTwitterMsg_page" method="post">' .
'<input name="twitter_msg" type="text" id="twitter_msg" size="40" maxlength="140" />' .
'<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="post" />' .
'</form>';


and now tell the world what you are doing now from this second page.

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LWC

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Hopefully someone would take the aforementioned Twitter API for a plugin that uses functions PLG_itemSaved & PLG_itemDeleted (e.g. function plugin_itemsaved_twitter & plugin_itemdeleted_twitter). That way there'll be neither a need for a middleman site nor relying on RSS feeds. The plugin would be similar to XMLSitemap.
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ITDiver

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This is great! very cool.
I´m getting an error. When Click the post, I get this: http://www.mysite.no/url_to_my_insertTwitterMsg_page . Am I missing something?
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ITDiver

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This is great! very cool.
I´m getting an error. When Click the post, I get this: http://www.mysite.no/url_to_my_insertTwitterMsg_page . Am I missing something?



My bad...I found what I was doing wrong, not pointing to my first page. Now I get this error.
atal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:\Sitepath\plugins\staticpages\functions.inc(1189) : eval()'d code on line 5
Error in my_thread_global_end(): 2 threads didn't exit
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ITDiver

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The only thing different I´m doing is that I had to call the first static page for sendTwitterMsg_no (ID). Could this be the issue?

Thanks for any help here.
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::Ben

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You need cURL

In order to use PHP's cURL functions you need to install the » libcurl package. PHP requires that you use libcurl 7.0.2-beta or higher. In PHP 4.2.3, you will need libcurl version 7.9.0 or higher. From PHP 4.3.0, you will need a libcurl version that's 7.9.8 or higher. PHP 5.0.0 requires a libcurl version 7.10.5 or greater.


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worldfooty

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Thanks Ben, looks good.

But since I've already set up with Twitterfeed, I guess I'll just use that for now. I didn't realise the RSS version I was using was so old and that I just had to go into the options on Content Syndication and change it to RSS 2.0.

I then just had to be patient for Twitterfeed and Twitter to re-check and refresh.

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::Ben

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Oops! I realise ITDiver maybe need to post automaticaly stories to twitter, so my code is not usefull in this case.

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Guest

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You're supposed to use OAuth and not actual password.
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ITDiver

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Oops! I realise ITDiver maybe need to post automaticaly stories to twitter, so my code is not usefull in this case.

::Ben



Well..I really like this as well. I helps just to do all from one place so the code is very usefull to me. Just have to get the cURL to work. :-)

Thanks
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ITDIver

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You're supposed to use OAuth and not actual password.



What do you mean by this????

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Guest

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I meant the aforementioned API code that included a password. Twitter's API includes something called OAuth to prevent having to include a password in one's code. That's why twitterfeed, for example, doesn't need to know your password anymore.

Actualy, Twitter plans to eventually simply disable codes that use passwords. Read their OAuth FAQ.
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