Tweet This Snippet

This snippet returns a link to twitter for the user to tweet the a URL (current page by default) with its title. URL is TinyURLed automatically (and tinyurls are cached indefinitely in assets/cache/tweetthis.txt).

Usage

Simply paste code (in attached file) into a new snippet called "TweetThis". Call it like so:

[[TweetThis? &name=`@DaveChild` &text=`Tweet This!` &id=`7` ]]

Parameters (all parameters are optional).

&name - can be your Twitter ID if you prefix with "@".
&text - will default to "Tweet This!".
&id - will default to the current document id.

Updates

Update 0.2 - more efficient storage of tinyurls (using id rather than url as key).
Update 0.3 - added id as optional parameter.
Update 0.4 - added check to ensure id is numeric. If not, snippet writes error to event log and uses default document id instead.

Nice, maybe will build it into my site, but shouldn’t the @text be &text

It should indeed - thanks for spotting that. I’ve changed it now.

Great snippet. Very cool.

Thanks, very nice snippet for Twitter availability...!!

Would it be possible to allow for giving a specific ID?

For instance, this doesn’t work on content gathered by Ditto. If I could specify the ID, I could get it to work on my front page.

Quote from: Soshite at Apr 17, 2009, 07:41 PM

Would it be possible to allow for giving a specific ID?

Done. Updated to 0.3 and you can now pass in an ID. I actually had it set to do that originally and changed it to keep it simple, but it makes sense to have the ability to pass in an id as well.

Yeah this rocks! I’d love to see more things like this for MODx!

thank you for sharing!

sorry to ask, i’m not sure if i understand the use of this snippet...it produces a tinyurled link & title, so that the user can copy and paste the text in order to tweet it?

jan

Quote from: sharkbait at Apr 18, 2009, 06:40 AM

thank you for sharing!

sorry to ask, i’m not sure if i understand the use of this snippet...it produces a tinyurled link & title, so that the user can copy and paste the text in order to tweet it?

jan

You almost get it You will get a link to twitter with the tinyurled link & title so you only have to log in into twitter to tweet the message