Twit-ee fetches data from the Twitter API and allows you to display it in your ExpressionEngine templates. A variety of tags are available allowing you to show your own tweets, your friends tweets and more.

System Requirements:

* ExpressionEngine Version 1.6.x
* PHP 5.x.x
* cURL support

Example:
The following will show the authenticating user’s 10 most recent favorite tweets with a cache time of 30 minutes

Download, licensing and documentation can be found here.

Please report bugs and add feature requests below.

Feel free to fork the project from GitHub and send a patch / pull request to help with bug fixing and feature requests.

Hi George,

Trying to test this out, but I get an error on attempting to install

“Unable to locate the files needed to install this module”

Just thought I’d ping you

Hi George,

nice addition. I was able to install the module, so no problem regarding that point (PHP 5.1.x, EE 1.6.7).

However, I have a small issue I already had with the the twitter_search plugin: The output is broken if the option “Enable GZIP Output?” is set to yes in the output and debugging preferences of EE.

In addition, it would be great if the module would be MSM friendly - e.g. store different twitter account details per MSM site (or allow to overwrite the default setting inside the EE tag).

BTW: I tried to use the project wiki but it seems so need some account edit a page there. Using the forums is less troublesome in that case

Markus

ms - thanks for the report. I’ve amended the post to use this thread for bugs and feature requests.

I’m going to wait for it to be in the wild for a little longer and will then look at bugs and features like making it MSM compatible.

For me, I would need two things from this module - if it had them, I’d pay for it:

1) MSM compatibility. At this point, anything released for EE should be MSM compatible. I can’t consider using anything that isn’t.

2) The ability to display replies to a Tweet, preferable within a certain timeframe. So for example say I post an entry, which appears on Twitter. I’d like to be able to tell this module to pull in any @ replies that have come in from within the first, say, 20 minutes. Then I should be able to manually delete any that aren’t truly a direct reply to the entry. Kind of like what you see here: http://chris.pirillo.com/is-amazons-kindle-on-fire/ - that is done by way of Wordpress plugin though. Can Twit-ee already do this?

Seems like a really great module, George! Is there a way to format the {created_at} into a prettier form, possibly just Tue Feb 10 17:11?

ms wrote

The output is broken if the option “Enable GZIP Output?” is set to yes in the output and debugging preferences of EE.

This is fixed in version 1.0.1.

Deelicious wrote:

Is there a way to format the {created_at} into a prettier form, possibly just Tue Feb 10 17:11?

I’m not planning support lots of different time formats but thankfully PHP can take care of it for you.

Enable PHP in templates and then use this:

See the PHP date function if you want to change the formatting to pretty much anything else.

Using this method you could also compare the timestamp to now and format a “3 hours ago” or similar .

Thanks, George! Worked like a charm.

I’ve installed the module and am getting this error when adding to my template.

I was using this piece of code in my template:

Thanks for the help.

Pat ;)

Pat,

are you sure your webspace is meeting the requirements - especially PHP 5.x? Code looks fine, but the error might imply you’re still using PHP 4.x.

Hi, thanks for your response.  I thought I was on PHP 5, but I’m double checking now. 

Pat

Update:  Am I php5 - but couldn’t get it to work so used the regular Twitter code off their website.

I was seeing the same error and I’m running PHP 5.1.6 (hosted at EngineHosting). It was sporadic though and while troubleshooting, I found that occasionally refreshing the PHP Info Utility page, it would instead show that I was running PHP Version 4.3.9

I have a note in with Nevin and crew to determine what’s going on.

When PHP 5.x is running, the module is a wonderful addition. Thanks for your work on this!

Update: It turns out that my site is on a cluster at EH that’s in the middle of an upgrade from PHP 4.x to PHP 5.1.6. It should be completed tonight and resolve the module errors I’m seeing.

How can I get links to link? I’m just getting plain text outputs, but I’d like to ensure when I post a link users can actually click it. This:

Should be:

Am I missing something really basic here?

I’m attempting to retrieve the status from friends using the {exp:twitee:friends} tag-pair, however the {text} variable keeps returning blank?  Am I using this correctly?  In the end, I basically want to get a list of the authenticated user’s status and the status of the friends, so I’m using the following:

Any help would be great.  All variables seem to work except the {text} variable, and I’m at a bit of a loss.  Thanks again.

There’s a minor update available to this module allowing a separate account for MSM sites. To enable MSM compatibility please upload the new files then uninstall and reinstall the module. The download is available from Github

rick.prince wrote

How can I get links to link? I’m just getting plain text outputs, but I’d like to ensure when I post a link users can actually click it.

This is a feature enhancement - I’ve filed this on the github site.

jonny.gotham wrote

I’m attempting to retrieve the status from friends using the {exp:twitee:friends} tag-pair, however the {text} variable keeps returning blank?  Am I using this correctly?

Yes it does look correct and I can replicate this as a bug. I have filed this as an issue and will address it in an upcoming build.

You can track the status of bugs and feature requests on the Github issues page

I’ve just pushed a further update (version 1.15) up to Github.

This now automatically converts links to html links, and also supports hash tag links and links to @username.

@jonny.gotham

You need the friends_timeline method to get the statuses of friends. Try this code:

But what if I’m attempting to only get the latest status from each friend, as in 1 status per friend being followed, rather than the stream of the latest 20.  That was why I went with using :

As the description says that it “Returns the authenticating user’s friends, each with current status inline. They are ordered by the order in which they were added as friends.”  So what I’m attempting to display is the friend and current status, 1 status per.  Is that possible?

Thank you for the help!

This tweet cut off right before the ampersand and gives this error message:

George:

Thanks again for all the work with this module.

I have a question though.  Does the Twit-ee module have a fail-safe in place or a user adjustable timeout if Twitter goes down?  With the boom in Twitter popularity and maintenance issues it’s been having recently, I just wanted to know what will happen if Twitter itself fails.  At this point I know that invalid login information in the module will stop the entire site in its tracks, but will the same happen if the module cannot connect to Twitter?  If so, is there a way for me to prevent that?

I have noticed definite slow-downs and stalls after introducing the module, and while some is expected with the API call, I wonder if the stalls are related to the module not being able to connect to twitter and a long timeout delay?

Any information would be great!  Thanks again for the great module!