Hi,
I've created some pages on my site for latest news and job vacancies and have included the twitter social integration link for 'tweet this to your followers'
However, when I click this, it opens my link in Twitter but doesn't add a TINY URL.
I've checked in the K2 parameters and the option to show Tiny URL is checked.
If I uncheck this then the tweet shows the link, but it is too long.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

have you tried sign up with bit.ly and integrates with Twitter?

Last time I was using this for JReview, and I signed up Bit.ly, then I added my Twitter accounts on bit.ly page. I don't know if this will solve your problem, but maybe worth a try.

ps: k2 are becoming so popular, they are having shortage of workers. They never answer these days.

In my case, this was because the file_get_contents function in PHP is disabled by my host. This is a common hosting restriction, for security. I fixed this by replacing it with CURL function instead. To make the fix, find components/com_k2/views/item/view_html.php and replace:

if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {
$itemURLForTwitter = ($params->get('tinyURL')) ? @file_get_contents('tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL) : $item->absoluteURL;
$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

With:

if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {

$itemURLForTwitter = $item->absoluteURL;

if($params->get('tinyURL')) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$itemURLForTwitter = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}

$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

Before I start hacking my K2, has anyone else successfully done this? (No offense Ivan, I'm sure it works).

Ivan Descartes said:In my case, this was because the file_get_contents function in PHP is disabled by my host. This is a common hosting restriction, for security. I fixed this by replacing it with CURL function instead. To make the fix, find components/com_k2/views/item/view_html.php and replace...

Excellent. This working fine.

Worked perfectly. Thank you!

Works GREAT :D


Ivan Descartes said:In my case, this was because the file_get_contents function in PHP is disabled by my host. This is a common hosting restriction, for security. I fixed this by replacing it with CURL function instead. To make the fix, find components/com_k2/views/item/view_html.php and replace:
if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {
$itemURLForTwitter = ($params->get('tinyURL')) ? @file_get_contents('tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL) : $item->absoluteURL;
$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

With:

if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {

$itemURLForTwitter = $item->absoluteURL;

if($params->get('tinyURL')) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$itemURLForTwitter = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}

$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

yes it works great !! Thanks for the tip !!

Thanks this fixed it for me too!

Worked here too. Thank you.

It worked but now twitter change the link :

twitter.com/home/?status=Reading.........

 

in :

twitter.com/#!/?status=Reading......

 

and it's doesn't work.

Some ideas to fix this problem ?

 

Thanks.

I, too, am having trouble getting this to work correctly. The link passes to Twitter, but the form is not pre-populated for the user to submit.

It doesn't work for me either. Before I change the code, can anyone verify that the above suggestion still works? The post is from 2010 and Twitter has changed since then...

I did try the change (using CURL). Still doesn't work. :-(

Maybe...we'll have to see!

 

I am having the same problem too, it takes me to twitter but it doesn't create a tiny url in the message box. It was working fine. Last time I've used it was on 5/11/11 and I've tried it yesterday (5/21/11) and it doesn't work. Any help will be appreciated.

 

marco said:

Yah I noticed this today as well. The link goes to twitter but then doesn't populate the text or url in the little twitter box. Has something changed with Twitter?

I have a fix for this. I am offering this to all but you must visit www.devsmi.com and register (quick easy and free) and once you login you will see "
Tiny URL not working on 'Tweet this to your followers'
 in the blog. Good luck let me know if this works for you.

Ah...ok, I tried your fix and it worked! Thank you! The only thing though is that the article's title in the tweet is concatenated with a '+' in between the words. Any way to fix this?

 

Thank you again though!devsmi said:

I have a fix for this. I am offering this to all but you must visit www.devsmi.com and register (quick easy and free) and once you login you will see "Tiny URL not working on 'Tweet this to your followers'
 in the blog. Good luck let me know if this works for you.

I had no problems when testing this myself. Could I see your site ?

Sure...it's www.rishonan.net devsmi said:
I had no problems when testing this myself. Could I see your site ?