New TegoTwitter block to be released today

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

I hope to release this block today in its first Beta form. Here is a short-list of features being release:

1) Uses Twitter API's to get the user's timeline to refresh the block cache.
2) Caches block HTML in nuke_blocks for better performance.
3) Cached block content is used so that search engine spiders will crawl the produced time-line.
4) Numerous configuration options and more will be created with each release.

AJAX update of the user time-line in near "real time" is planned for the final release of 1.0.0.

Newbie Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Posts: 1

well as you have i have also been looking for a good block for Twitter so i will let you know how ez it is for us noobs to get up and running Laughing

ps im following you on Twitter Cool

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Sounds good. I appreciate and and all feedback. I may not incorporate all, but that doesn't me I do not appreciate it. Laughing

More feedback the better...

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

I'll try and get this installed by the weekend Smile

Just a quickie though, are you caching a copy of a given twitter accounts full XML file or just caching the last xx bits of data?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Only the number of tweets that you elect to show within the configuration settings. I believe the default is 8 right now.

Newbie Joined: Feb 15, 2008 Posts: 1

I tried to use an twitter account with an underscore. This is replaced by %20 (space), and ofcourse this won't work.

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

@ M around line 210 / 334 in the Class there is a rawurlencode in the timeline and 'friend' link building. It's possible this isn't the issue but just trying to save you some time.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

I'll have to dig further I am afraid, as the PHP manual rawurlencode isn't suppose to change either of "-" or "_".

http://php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

Murdock wrote:

I tried to use an twitter account with an underscore. This is replaced by %20 (space), and ofcourse this won't work.

I found a user who had an underscore in their screen name and it worked just fine. Are you sure that you have both the screen name and your id correct?

Maybe PM me both of these so that I can give it a try locally?

Newbie Joined: Mar 20, 2010 Posts: 35

This is great i will try this one today. thanks.

Newbie Joined: Jan 30, 2009 Posts: 14 Location: NL

Hi Montego. Can u please tell me how this works. I tried but it doesnt work for me. Maybe I miss something. Sad

How do I get my user ID. I cant find it.

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

That would be your Twitter account username.

Newbie Joined: Jan 30, 2009 Posts: 14 Location: NL

Ok, I am here again to report the problems after testing the block.

I found out if I put the twitter block on the right or left side then it doesnt show, maybe javascript conflict. I wanna know why it is happening that.

How to find your ID from twitter?

http://help.twitter.com/entries/15360-how-to-find-your-user-id

Maybe Montego forgot to say. I dont know but I couldnt find my id on my twitter account until I read this tutorial from the site above.

Congratulation montego. it looks very nice the block. Thanks.

you can see the block here www.bestbuildpc.com

Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 383

I don't know if it is the cause but you have two JS on.document.ready functions. Try disabling the live chat and see if that helps.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 1294

hicux, thank you for the nice link. I shall include that in the instructions next time. I didn't provide any assistance there. It had been so long since I had found mine that I didn't remember how difficult it was. Wink

BTW guys, there is NO javascript in this thing yet, so you can rule out anything javascript related in your thinking. I am using this block on the right-hand side, so I can't see why it would not work on your site? What do you mean by "it doesn't show"? Can you expound a bit please? Do any of your blocks underneath and above it still show? What about the footer?