short url

The URL shortening is done in the Twitter module, but it looks like it only does the shortening on the new node post using tokens. I guess an ordinary url passed through the Twitter API doesn't get shortened.

This sort of falls in between the two modules, but I'll keep it open here. No need to open a ticket under Twitter module. If it looks like I can address it in TweetRSS, I'll change this to a feature request.

Timeline on this might be a bit longer than usual due to my travel schedule.

I created a quick and dirty add-on module (works with 6.x-1.0-beta1) that is specific to my needs to shorten the url via the "Shorten" module.

I personally wanted only the title and link. I also wanted to prepend and append text to the tweet so I used the regex_match and regex_replace fields for that. The end product was dead simple because of the great hooks available. Here is the contents of the module file:

<?php

function tweetrssshorten_tweetrss_filter($row) {
// put the feed and item data into a pseudo-RSS format for matching
$link=$row['link'];
$title=$row['title'];
$link=str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), '', $link);
$title=str_replace(array("\r\n", "\n", "\r"), '', $title);
$link=shorten_url($link);
//regex_match value assigned to prepend
$prepend=$row['regex_match'];
//regex_replace value for append
$append=$row['regex_replace'];
$tweet=$prepend . " " . $title . " " . $link . " " . $append;
return substr($tweet, 0, 140);
}

function tweetrssshorten_tweetrss_register() {
return array('tweetrssshorten' => 'Tweet RSS Shorten');
}

So once you install this add-on module you select 'Tweet RSS Shorten' in the dropdown of the TweetRSS feed settings and then put what you want to prepend to the tweet in the regex_match field and what you want to append to the tweet in the regex_replace field.

This add-on module is attached. Hopefully it helps or gives you a place to start

Thanks for the code. It gets me thinking that I should find a way to make the form for editing the feed more generic... one field, two fields etc.

For example, it could use token for a simplified format instead of the regex... EG: "New post: [title][link]" or in your case, "New post: [title][link-shorten]".

I think this will belong in a 2.0 version rather than messing with 1.0, since the storage for the feed is likely different.

I'll try to get something up before Drupalcon. *tick* *tick*