Testing Twitter for Wordpress using Twitter Updater

28 Oct
2007

I’m now using Twitter Updater by Victoria Chan

Okay I had to edit the Plugin to get it to work. Here is what I did:

Go to your Twitter Updater options, and enter your username in ‘Your Twitter account details’ where it asks you for your email address.
Go to edit the file called wp-content/plugins/twitter_updater/twitter_updater.php and find ‘function vc_doTwitterAPIPost’. Change that function entirely to the below.

function vc_doTwitterAPIPost($twit, $twitterURI) {


    //check if user login details have been entered on admin page
    $thisLoginDetails = get_option('twitterlogin_encrypted');

if($thisLoginDetails != '') { //this code based on http://www.morethanseven.net/posts/posting-to-twitter-using-php/ // list($username,$password) = split(":",base64_decode($thisLoginDetails)); $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'; $curl_handle = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url"); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "$twit"); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password"); $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle); curl_close($curl_handle); return ''; } else { //user has not entered details.. Do nothing? Don't wanna mess up the post saving.. return ''; } }