Post comment to Twitter using logged in user's account

Awesome code! I've been trying to figure out how to do exactly the same thing, but I am not super saavy at building Drupal modules so this came in VERY HANDY!

Thanks for the contribution.

Hi,

I've been looking for something like this for quite a while. Just wanted to say thanks for the contribution.
But I've got a specific request...
How do you set up a rule to post a message to the current user's Twitter account? At the moment, the form in the "Post a message to Twitter" action only permits a absolute value. I want to use a token for the currently logged in user's Twitter account.

Perhaps you can point me in the right direction as to what I should change in the code below.
I'm pretty certain that someparts of your code above will come in handy just not sure exactly what.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks,
ayathullah

Heres the code I found in the twitter_actions module which is comes packaged with the twitter module

// $Id: twitter_actions.module,v 1.2.2.3 2010/10/20 15:59:11 walkah Exp $

/**
 * @file
 * Exposes Drupal actions for sending Twitter messages.
 */

/**
 * Implementation of hook_action_info().
 */
function twitter_actions_action_info() {
  return array(
    'twitter_actions_set_status_action' => array(
      'type' => 'system',
      'description' => t('Post a message to Twitter'),
      'configurable' => TRUE,
      'hooks' => array(
        'nodeapi' => array('view', 'insert', 'update', 'delete'),
        'comment' => array('view', 'insert', 'update', 'delete'),
        'user' => array('view', 'insert', 'update', 'delete', 'login'),
        'cron' => array('run'),
      ),
    ),
  );
}

/**
 * Return a form definition so the Send email action can be configured.
 *
 * @param $context
 *   Default values (if we are editing an existing action instance).
 * @return
 *   Form definition.
 */
function twitter_actions_set_status_action_form($context = array()) {
  // Set default values for form.
  $context += array(
    'account_id' => -1,
    'screen_name' => '',
    'message' => '',
  );

  $form['screen_name'] = array(
    '#type'          => 'textfield',
    '#title'         => t('Twitter account name'),
    '#default_value' => $context['screen_name'],
    '#size'          => 25,
    '#required'      => TRUE,
  );

  $form['message'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textarea',
    '#title' => t('Message'),
    '#default_value' => $context['message'],
    '#cols' => '80',
    '#rows' => '3',
    '#description' => t('The message that should be sent. You may include the following variables: %site_name, %username, %node_url, %node_type, %title, %teaser, %body, %tinyurl. Not all variables will be available in all contexts.'),
    '#required'      => TRUE,
  );
  return $form;
}

function twitter_actions_set_status_action_validate($form, $form_state) {
  if (!_twitter_use_oauth()) {
    form_set_error('screen_name', t('Oath has not yet been setup.'));
  }
  if (!db_result(db_query("SELECT twitter_uid FROM {twitter_account} WHERE screen_name = '%s'", $form_state['values']['screen_name']))) {
    form_set_error('screen_name', t('Twitter authentication failed. Please check your account name and try again.'));
  }
}

function twitter_actions_set_status_action_submit($form, $form_state) {
  $form_values = $form_state['values'];
  $twitter_uid = db_result(db_query("SELECT twitter_uid FROM {twitter_account} WHERE screen_name = '%s'", $form_values['screen_name']));
  // Process the HTML form to store configuration. The keyed array that
  // we return will be serialized to the database.
  $params = array(
    'twitter_uid' => $twitter_uid,
    'screen_name' => $form_values['screen_name'],
    'message'   => $form_values['message'],
  );
  return $params;
}

/**
 * Implementation of a configurable Drupal action.
 * Sends an email.
 */
function twitter_actions_set_status_action($object, $context) {
  global $user;
  $variables['%site_name'] = variable_get('site_name', 'Drupal');

  switch ($context['hook']) {
    case 'nodeapi':
    case 'workflow':
      // Because this is not an action of type 'node' the node
      // will not be passed as $object, but it will still be available
      // in $context.
      $node = $context['node'];
      break;
    // The comment hook provides nid, in $context.
    case 'comment':
      $comment = $context['comment'];
      $node = node_load($comment->nid);
    case 'user':
      // Because this is not an action of type 'user' the user
      // object is not passed as $object, but it will still be available
      // in $context.
      $account = $context['account'];
      if (isset($context['node'])) {
        $node = $context['node'];
      }
      elseif ($context['recipient'] == '%author') {
        // If we don't have a node, we don't have a node author.
        watchdog('error', 'Cannot use %author token in this context.');
        return;
      }
      break;
    case 'taxonomy':
      $account = $user;
      $vocabulary = taxonomy_vocabulary_load($object->vid);
      $variables = array_merge($variables, array(
        '%term_name' => $object->name,
        '%term_description' => $object->description,
        '%term_id' => $object->tid,
        '%vocabulary_name' => $vocabulary->name,
        '%vocabulary_description' => $vocabulary->description,
        '%vocabulary_id' => $vocabulary->vid,
        )
      );
      break;
    default:
      // We are being called directly.
      $node = $object;
  }

  if (isset($node)) {
    if (!isset($account)) {
      $account = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
    }
    if ($recipient == '%author') {
      $recipient = $account->mail;
    }
  }

  $variables['%username'] = $account->name;

  // Node-based variable translation is only available if we have a node.
  if (isset($node) && is_object($node)) {
    $variables = array_merge($variables, array(
        '%uid' => $node->uid,
        '%node_url' => url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE)),
        '%node_type' => node_get_types('name', $node),
        '%title' => $node->title,
        '%teaser' => $node->teaser,
        '%body' => $node->body
      )
    );
  }

  // Only make a tinyurl if it was asked for.
  if (strstr($context['message'], '%tinyurl') !== FALSE) {
    $variables = array_merge($variables, array(
      '%tinyurl' => twitter_shorten_url(url('node/'. $node->nid, array('absolute' => TRUE))),
    ));
  }

  $message = strtr($context['message'], $variables);

  module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
  $twitter_account = twitter_account_load($context['twitter_uid']);
  twitter_set_status($twitter_account, $message);
}

@escore
I have posted it as a new issue please visit the link http://drupal.org/node/1135026

If make this custom module, is it enough to update user's status or more coding is required?
BM

Hi, folks. Is the use case for this something like: "as a module developer, I want to be able to implement a hook to post an arbitrary message to Twitter, as the current user"?

It's definitely one of the goals of this module to provide an API for other modules to use, and I think there's good reason to make sure this functionality is present in the module and provide documentation for it.

Yes and to also allow some automated status update as the current user does certain activities on the site.
This what I personally need it to do.
1. update status upon successful registration
2. Update status upon adding some defined content type
3. Update status upon flagging a particular content type or user
4. update status periodically advertising the current user post (user can enable/disable this)
5. (Optional) tracking update status, in order to identify what users are the super stars.

Buddy can you implement this module, if the cost is reasonable, I pay for it.
Thanks
BM
You can send me private mail to discuss pricing

Use Rules module, with custom token module.
You will need some db_fetch php code to get the token though.

@Ayesh I am no programmer hence I am willing to pay to get this done :)
Thanks again for the responses

Not yet tested!

  global $user;
  module_load_include('inc', 'twitter');
  $values = db_fetch_array(db_query("SELECT twitter_uid FROM {twitter_account} WHERE uid = %d", $user->uid)); 
   $twitter_account = twitter_account_load($values[twitter_uid]);

I don't know if I am just completely over looking something but I have the twitter and twitter actions modules installed and have tried using functions from your bit of code. Every function I try to call says that it can not find it. I have also added the module include at the top. But I am getting errors like this.Call to undefined function twitter_get_user_accounts() Any idea on what I could be missing here?

This functionality is supported now using Rules due to #1045304: Rules: Post to current user's Twitter account.

Marking as duplicate.

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