Announce new topics via twitter

Daniel · March 2007

I think this should be easy for an programmer by using the twitter-API - and usefull for me :-)

Daniel · March 2007

Or is there simply a way to call http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=topictitle when a new topic is written?

WallPhone · March 2007

in the CommentManager, there is a PostSaveNewComment delegate that you could attach to. Not sure how to tell if its a new discussion or just a comment though.

Daniel · March 2007

I've found that - but I'm really not familiar with the way vanilla triggers something. There is a simple way to update twitter with php, but I cant't figure out how to include that :-/


<?php
$email = $_POST['email'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$status = urlencode( $_POST['status'] );

$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";

$session = curl_init();
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $email . ":" . $password );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"status=" . $status);
$result = curl_exec ( $session );
curl_close( $session );
?>

WallPhone · March 2007

Maybe? You would probably have to set your twitter email and password inside twitter.php.


function IncludeTwitterFile(&$CommentManager) {
	
	// Need to do some additional checking to see if this is a new discussion, or just a new comment here
	// If its a new discussion:
	include('twitter.php');
}

$Context->AddToDelegate('CommentManager', 'PreSaveNewComment', 'IncludeTwitterFile');

Raize · August 2010

Let's do this. It's an awesome way to attract traffic to your forum.

"New discussion on yoursite.com - discussion topic - link"

oliverraduner · August 2010

@Daniel @WallPhone & @Raize
I am not sure, if it makes sense creating kind of a plugin for vanilla for posting to Twitter. I guess it would be better relying on existing services such as twitterfeed.com (which grabs updates via the RSS feed).

What do you think about that?

Raize · August 2010

@oliverraduner

twitterfeed actually turned out to be the perfect solution! everytime i make a new discussion on my forum, it makes a post to my twitter feed just like i wanted...doesn't get any easier than this

now the fun begins...

Raize · August 2010

p.s. i miss @wallphone

Announce new topics via twitter

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