vBulletin Mods

Description

This modification adds basic Twitter integration to vBulletin. Once a user defines their Twitter username & password within their vB Options (User CP -> Edit Options), the Tweet This X links will appear.

It automatically adds a tweet to their account with the default text of "Check this out! " (which can be edited editing the "twitter_checkout" phrase) and uses your forum URL with either tp or tt.php as the link. These redirect to the thread / post that was tweeted.

Installation

1. Upload files in the /upload/ folder of the .zip into the directories as is.
2. Install product file.
3. Register an OAuth Application here, using:
   • Application Name: Your Site!
   • Description: Site Integration into Twitter.
   • (I request this one not be changed!) Application Website: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204694
   • Website: Your URL!
   • Application Type: Browser
   • (change url) Callback URL: http://www.yoururl.com/twitter_auth.php
   • Default Access type: Read & Write
4. Click Install on vB.org
5. Tell Your users.
6. Enjoy

Upgrading to v1.0.4

• Upload all files, overwrite everything.
• Install product file.
• Register an OAuth Application here, using:
  • Application Name: Your Site!
  • Description: Site Integration into Twitter.
  • (I request this one not be changed!) Application Website: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=204694
  • Website: Your URL!
  • Application Type: Browser
  • (change url) Callback URL: http://www.yoururl.com/twitter_auth.php
  • Default Access type: Read & Write
• Gain and copy the Consumer Key & Secret into vBulletin Options.

Upgrading to v1.0.3 or before.

• Upload all files, overwrite everything.
• install product file.
• Remove template edits. For the record, they are here:
  • Open the postbit or postbit_legacy template (depending on what you use). Find:
    
    

    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    
    Add before that:
    
    

    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    
    
  • Open the SHOWTHREAD template.
    Find:
    
    

    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    
    Add After:
    
    

    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    
    Find:
    
    

    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    
    Add After:
    
    

    Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
    Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

    
    

Requirements

THIS MODIFICATION REQUIRES PHP 5 DUE TO THE CLASS THAT IS USED!

PHP'S CURL EXTENSION IS ALSO USED! THE API CALLS ARE COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON THEM!

This modification should work on vBulletin v3.5+, but was only tested on a vB 3.8 install.

Using the "tp.php" switch added in v1.0.2

With the release of v1.0.2, a switch between showpost.php?p=ID&postcount=COUNT and showthread.php?p=ID#postID has been added. Using it is simple, but requires a code edit (Note: This is a SUPPORTED code edit!). Open up tp.php and find this line:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Change that line to this:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

This will automatically trigger the change any time it is loaded. This works retroactively and any links will automatically use the new settings once changed!

Thanks @KingKovifor, via @Floris

LOL

Nice, just worried about storing twitter passwords... I take it they are not md5ed so to use them on twitter.

I think I'd rather use a popup asking username and password.

LOL. You got to hear about my development woes!

I was worried about that too but I need to authenticate and don't know where or how to authenticate without storing it. Pop up would work, but I am thinking of ease of use. Any suggestions?

I'd guess another version of this mod could be made, where anyone can twit anything clicking on "Twit This" that opens a popup window that asks username, password and text to append before URL. I could do it but *yawn* not sure how integration with twitter works. It would be just one php file and one template edit. Also not sure if you can twit posts, or just threads would make more sense. But your idea of twitting not the post text, but a link to the forum is nice.

awesome!

I can add that as a product tomorrow. Admin set option for on / off?

This allows you to tweet posts and threads. My next major feature release plans on adding things that would require edits like it.

You guys are too much I love it.

After that thread I knew this was coming! Great work!

What thread?

The twitter thread...

Okay....so, will this allow us to send a Twitter (or a Tweet or whatever it's called! :) ) message to our vB profile? I'm a little confused (although that's not a big surprise ;) ) about what the dilly yo'. :D

It creates a tweet that includes a URL to the specified Post / thread with the default words "check this out" to your Twitted profile. Each user sets up their own profile for this to work.

Use mcrypt and have the site owner enter a secret phrase in the config.php file (best place for it)... You can then take the secret phrase and generate a seed value that encrypts the login information. Not foolproof since it will be necessary to decrypt the information but should provide enough basic protection.

Thanks! I'll look into that! And i'm looking at HTTP Basic Auth as the example show it encrypted so if I can figure that out I'll store that.