Twitter Portlet

[Andy]

Just spent a few minutes following the portlets guide and created a Twitter Portlet which I thought some of you might be interested in.

What does it do?
It displays the latest updates from your/a Twitter account.
View the image attached for an example.

Settings:
Just set the Twitter account username you want to display the updates from, such as your own or a celebrity/company/friend etc.
Set the amount of updates to show.
And thats it!

How to use:
1. Download the attachment "TwitterPortlet.php"
2. Upload it to: /system/classes/portlets/
3. Go to your Portlets Administration
4. Choose Twitter, set the settings, add and save.
5. View it!

This was made really quick so it can be improved quite alot to add translation support/css/title change etc. but since I'm going on holiday over the next two days I wont have the time till next week so anyone can feel free to update it as they wish - makes my life easier!

Let me know if you have any problems!

[Kevin]

Andy, if you don't stop posting and contributing, you have to join the team

I will give it a try, but I am currently working on another project... so you'll get my feedback later. Do you cache these request or do you rely on Twitter?

[Andy]

Andy, if you don't stop posting and contributing, you have to join the team

Damn, I'll stop then!  

I will give it a try, but I am currently working on another project... so you'll get my feedback later. Do you cache these request or do you rely on Twitter?

What other project are you working on? (You don't really have to tell me) Thanks for any feedback you/anyone can give me but this is probably the simplest bit of code you've ever seen since twitter does all the work.. it was just made as a test for myself in creating a portlet instead of the Hello World example you gave hehe but thought others might find it useful so I decided to share it.

[Kevin]

No please, don't stop!!!
Nice contribution

The code is really simple but effective. Now we need one that can search for a hashtag instead of a users updates

What is the shoutbox in the screenshot?

[Dragonslayer]

i Just found this nice Portlet...
And now leaving some Feedback

This is a Great Portlet.. and i wanna use it more than once on a page... but that dont work
i want my http://iXtreme.se page to follow two Twitters (me DragonSlayer_SE and TeamJungle)
it Would be nice if the Portlet "header" was the twitter-username instead of just "twitter"

[Kevin]

Its possible with the attached version.

Extract twitter.zip. Copy blogger.js to your /addon/ folder and TwitterPortlet.php to system/classes/portlets/

Enjoy

[Dragonslayer]

something went wrong!
now i dont get any results!
(not even when only one followed)

[Kevin]

Log Error, Javascript Error? Tested it with 2.7 and 2 accounts, worked fine...

[Kevin]

Okay, checked it on your site, I see the problem but do not know here it comes from.
Everything worked fine here with Blix template... I guess its related to how you load Portlets.
It seems to me as if you load them twice, but thats wrong internally. I check your template source.

[Kevin]

Yep, you initalize the portlets twice in CrystalX, which produces the problem.
First: remove every occurence of

Code:

{portlets assign="CrystalXPortlets"}

and then replace every occurence of

Code:

{include file="CrystalX-Header.tpl"}

with

Code:

{portlets assign="CrystalXPortlets"}{include file="CrystalX-Header.tpl"}

[Dragonslayer]

That worked EXELENT
(i dont have time to update CVS right now)

[Kevin]

I will add some kind of caching to the portlets tag, so this error cannot be produced any longer.