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according to what I have read on the internet, the twit code for publishing on twitter looks somthing like this (in EE code):

<ahref=”http://twitter.com/home?status={title} <a href="http://www.market-talk.net/index.php/id/{entry_id}&gttwit">http://www.market-talk.net/index.php/id/{entry_id}">twit</a> this</a>

The problem is that it does not work. I have tried to use a plugin made for EE for the specific purpose, but I cant seem to make it work.

Why is this code wrong?? What do I have to do to make it work?

For some reason I seem to be the only EE user that cant find a way to put a twitter button on my pages so people can send my posts to twitter.

I have tried 2 plugins made for EE but they dont seem to work, or there are issues ... one of which is encoding related.

My question is, what can I do about this?? Does anybody have any code or something else I can use??

regards

You have to put this:

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently" title="Click to send this page to Twitter">_  Path/To/Image_</a>

Just play with link: {site_url}{title_permalink='Template/'}

Hi George,

In what way isn’t it working?

I notice that in your code above you have ahref=”“ where as it should be a href=”“. Could that be it perhaps?

Also make sure that you have that code placed within a weblog tag so that the {title} and {entry_id} variables get converted to the values you need.

Hope some of that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark no thats not it. ahref was deliberate so the code can be visible in this forum.

I have evclosed a pic of the exact code.

Also, this is a test template

http://www.market-talk.net/index.php/id/7809/

Below the facebook share at the bottom is the twit code.

As you can see, he {title} and {entry_id) is rendered ok, but the layout is all wrong.

I just cant figure why it is rendered the way it is rendered.

Do I have to use

{site_url}{title_permalink='Template/'}???

Cant I simply use

/index.php/id/{entry_id}"  title="{title}"

Do I have to use

{site_url}{title_permalink='Template/'}???

Cant I simply use

/index.php/id/{entry_id}"  title="{title}"

http://www.market-talk.net/index.php/id/7809/

the link above is where I am doing some tests.

The rendering is all wrong.

Hmm that seems really odd to me as you have the twitter.com part first in the link and then your link afterwards yet in the rendered link they come out back to front.

Actually looking at the image code you have shown above I see a couple of problems.

Perhaps give this a try instead.

<ahref='http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently reading {site_url}id/{entry_id}' title='{title}'>twit this</a>

Add back in the space to href of course 😉 Sorry didn’t realise that links don’t show correctly when placed into code here

Hope that works.

Best wishes,

Mark

Perhaps this thread should be merged with this one - http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/140133 ?

Also as a note it’s best not to post in multiple forums with the same question. Just a note though 😉

Hi George,

Has Mark’s advice helped you with this? If you check your code in the image you will see that you have formed your HTML incorrectly and as Mark suggests you need to properly quote both the URL and the title.

Cheers

Greg

@Mark, thanks for the assist!

Greg thanks, Mark showed me the problem and now it works ok.

One more thing, I keep getting encoding errors. Any ideas??

George,

One more thing, I keep getting encoding errors. Any ideas??

What encoding errors?
An EE error or a browser error?

What version and build of EE are you using?
Have you tried using UTF-8 encoding instead?

No I use windows-1253, an extinct relic, but only beacuse I have not found a way to convert my mysql to UTF-8.

Any ideas on how to do that?? I have searched the whole internet and still cant find an easy way to do it.

Have you seen: http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Switching_EE_to_Use_UTF-8_Charset/