Off the top of my head, I don't see why the twitter plugin shouldn't be able to hook into one of the comment save hooks and tweet when a comment is posted. Something like....

  void AfterCommentInsert( array &$params  )

might work. It doesn't do this at the moment of course so you would need to hack the plugin to get it to work.

I guess a different option would be to use the comment rss feed and a service like http://twitterfeed.com/ or http://dlvr.it to push the comments out to twitter that way. Not sure how well it would work or how it would look on twitter but at least you could give this a go now without hacking code.

I have http://dlvr.it set up on a few of my sites and it works really well. Especially as you can post to multiple social media platforms and not just twitter.

Cheers
Lee

lturner wrote:

Off the top of my head, I don't see why the twitter plugin shouldn't be able to hook into one of the comment save hooks and tweet when a comment is posted. Something like....

  void AfterCommentInsert( array &$params  )

might work. It doesn't do this at the moment of course so you would need to hack the plugin to get it to work.

I guess a different option would be to use the comment rss feed and a service like http://twitterfeed.com/ or http://dlvr.it to push the comments out to twitter that way. Not sure how well it would work or how it would look on twitter but at least you could give this a go now without hacking code.

I have http://dlvr.it set up on a few of my sites and it works really well. Especially as you can post to multiple social media platforms and not just twitter.

Cheers
Lee

I liked the idea of comment feed.much appreciated
There has gotta be like tens of workarounds to achieve what i want. But afaic the most efficient way would be what i described above.

There's a word press plugin that does the above, i will try to get it working in evo, if i cant i will have to settle to that as a last resort.

fyi, feedburner also allows you to tweet your feed, but i couldnt find information anywhere if it's real-time.

Get the latest twitter plugin from here http://evocms.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms/b2evolution/blogs/plugins/twitter_plugin/_twitter.plugin.php?revision=1.27&content-type=text%2Fplain

and use this code in your plugin

tested! ;)

function AfterCommentInsert( & $params )
{
	global $Plugins;
	
	if( $TwitterPlugin = & $Plugins->get_by_code('evo_twitter') )
	{
		$content = array(
				'title'	=> $params['Comment']->dget('content', 'xml'),
				'url'	=> $params['Comment']->Item->get_tinyurl().'#c'.$params['Comment']->ID,
			);

		$Blog = $params['Comment']->Item->get_Blog();

		$r = $TwitterPlugin->send_a_tweet( $content, $Blog, $msg );

		$this->msg( $msg, 'note' );
		return $r;
	}
	return false;
}

Wouldn't it be better to just add an option to the twitter plugin to tweet out comments then everyone gets the benefit ?

L

lturner wrote:

Wouldn't it be better to just add an option to the twitter plugin to tweet out comments then everyone gets the benefit ?

L

It's a good idea. Feel free to add the above code to the twitter plugin.

We still need an option to tweet 'Hello World' from b2evo, so those changes were necessary.

so, has anybody added it to the plugin successfully yet, and how can i ? the the cvs for evocms plugins seems to be down

I haven't added this yet. Sorry, I don't have the time to look at this at the moment.

L