Theming Twitter views
Last modified: April 11, 2009 - 06:36
Using Twitter module with Views2 on a membership site and needed a way to link back to members on Twitter, so wrote this views-view-fields--tweet.tpl.php override that links each tweet back to site member's Twitter account:
<div class="twitter_users_picture">
<a href="http://www.domain.com/<?php print $row->users_name; ?>"><img src="http://www.domain.com/<?php print $row->users_picture; ?>" /></a>
</div>
<div class="twitter_users_name">
<a href="http://www.domain.com/<?php print $row->users_name; ?>"><?php print $row->users_name; ?></a> says:
</div>
<div class="twitter_text">
<?php print $row->twitter_text; ?>
</div>
<div class="twitter_created_time">
Tweeted <?php print format_date($row->twitter_created_time); ?>
</div>
<div class="twitter_screen_name">
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/<?php print $row->twitter_screen_name; ?>">Follow <?php print $row->twitter_screen_name; ?> on Twitter</a>
</div>I'm not a programmer or themer, so there are probably better ways to do this but it solved some output formatting issues for me. I'm not good enough to get the @names in the tweets to link, although it would be nice!
Making @names and links work
Hi!
You can try and integrate this to the module... it turns urls in tweets into proper linked urls and also the @whoever into proper links too...
I've tested it and it works stand alone and also in Wordpress - In Drupal not tested yet because of caching issues in my original code. Full working version (standalone) available here - http://hygen.net/blog/?p=536
<?php
$PrintMe = $Variable_Containing_Twitters_Text;
$PrintMe = url2link ($PrintMe);
$PrintMe = preg_replace("/@([A-Za-z0-9_]+)/","<a href='http://www.twitter.com/$1'>$0</a> ",$PrintMe) . '';
print $PrintMe;
/* Functions */
function reduceurl($url, $url_length) {
$reduced_url = substr($url, 0, $url_length);
if (strlen($url) > $url_length) $reduced_url .= '...';
return $reduced_url;
}
function url2link($linktext) {
$linktext = preg_replace("#(([a-zA-Z]+://)([a-zA-Z0-9?&%.;:/=+_-]*))#e", "'<a href=\"$1\">' . reduceurl(\"$3\", 25) . '</a>'", $linktext);
return $linktext;
}
?>
Dan Gibas, HYGEN