Wondering how the variable substitution works against the character count, though. Are you not allowed to submit if, after variable replacement, the character count goes above 140? Or does the Tweet get truncated?
Yeha I haven’t really figured that part out yet. If the variable substitution makes the tweet over 140 characters I’m guessing twitter will jst truncate it. Maybe I need to add an option to say “don’t send if over 140 characters”. If your tweet is over 140 chars LG Twitter won’t send the tweet but display it again for you in an error with the variables replaced. That way you could use the tweet bar to make any adjustments.
I’m pretty sure Twitter will truncate and add a more link but if a person is using (receiving) via SMS it’s lost. SMS is the whole reason for the 140chr limit.
I’ve switched over to identi.ca (open source Twitter platform) and there’s been a bunch of discussions around this.
I just implemented a check to see if the Tweet was over 140 chars. If it is the full length tweet with the variables replaced is show back to the user with an error. This will give them the opportunity to change the tweet before it’s posted.
I went to edit my forum preferences –change the trigger word– and when I wanted to save the settings, a MySQL error jumped saying that site_id doesn’t exist in field dunnowhat – can’t really remember now.
I disabled the Twitter extension and I could save the settings. I think it’s something to do with the twitter bar at the bottom.
One request, can you make the variable {entry_id} available? When I go to send a tweet and include the entry’s title as well as the {url_title} in the url, its more often then not over 140 characters since both are long.
Lastly, I noticed that the from name on twitter is Expression Engine with a link to the extension. Is there a way to change this or is that the “plug” for the freebe? Thanks!
Lastly, I noticed that the from name on twitter is Expression Engine with a link to the extension. Is there a way to change this or is that the “plug” for the freebe? Thanks!
Did you find any more about this one mate? I want to use this but I’d like it to be ‘from’ my website with a link. If there’s a commercial option to remove it as per Better Meta I’d happily pay.
Getting some Session Cookie and Headers Already Sent error messages with this extension in EECore 1.6.6. Is this not made to work on the free version of EE?
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/path/sess_47c32089818d778302fbff724322bea6, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/XXX/public_html/system/extensions/ext.lg_twitter_ext.php on line 791
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/cody/public_html/system/extensions/ext.lg_twitter_ext.php:791) in /home/XXX/public_html/system/extensions/ext.lg_twitter_ext.php on line 791
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/cody/public_html/system/extensions/ext.lg_twitter_ext.php:791) in /home/XXX/public_html/system/extensions/ext.lg_twitter_ext.php on line 791
