Comments on: BuddyPress: Expanding Settings Menu

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:39:42 +0000

I found: code.google.com/p/php-twitter/
Will see what I can do with it.
Thanks!

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:27:02 +0000

In my tests, I found a PHP twitter library in Google Code. Sorry, I don’t have exact url on me at the moment. Perhaps do a google search and/or ask in the BP forums.

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:22:11 +0000

Sure:)
It’s easy to integrate in Activity (I mean create there a page called Twitter), I created in Settings Twitter page too (using your code). The problem for me now is to make this 2 variables global:
$current_user->user_twitterusername
$current_user->user_twitterpassword
to call them and make twitter statuses appear. I don’t know what twitter library I need to use and how to confige it.
Trying to find somehing… Do you have any advice?

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:09:56 +0000

That’s cool. Keep me updated. I wish i had the time to create a building block or tutorial for intergrating with ACTIVITY. My examples assume you want to build something separate and it’s own page, etc. But I wish you well my friend!

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:06:49 +0000

Thank you! Now I’m tryimg using your bp-test implement twitter to Activity with the ability to manage twitter status (writing and so on)

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:01:32 +0000

http://daveaubin.getpaidfrom.us/2008/12/07/buddypress-twitter-to-wire-plugin/

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:57:33 +0000

And where is that plugin? Could you give a link?

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:20:57 +0000

Oh yeah, even my building block posts don’t deal with merging anything into Activity. That is what i would consider a more advanced topic, but doable if i ever wanted to write another tutorial. There already exists a plugin that takes twitter posts and puts them into the WIRE (not ACTIVITY).

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:09:52 +0000

Oh, understood, so it need to be ramade somehow to show twitter in Activity, for example.
Thanks for explanation, will try to do something with it

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:18:59 +0000

slaFFik,

Although it goes in the mu-plugin folder, it’s not really a plugin if you read my explanation above. The twitter in the screenshots was an example I used with this “proof of concept”. This was to show you how to setup your own settings (sub)menu, not a twitter plugin or a plugin really of any kind. My later posts are along the same theme - creating building blocks that lead to components and plugins.

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:57:43 +0000

As I understood, this plugin doesn’t create any page except in Settings? Than, what does this plugin do? No one can see your twitter status… Or I have missed something?

By: iamzaks

iamzaks — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:50:48 +0000

I think the code is missing a ?> closing, am I right? don’t know much about php coding… PS: Im translating it to spanish, great plugin! Keep developing it!

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:34:30 +0000

slaFFik,

Of course!

By: slaFFik

slaFFik — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:57:44 +0000

David, thank for your plugin! Can I translate it into Russian and redistribute under your permission and rights?

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:10:59 +0000

Nicola,

If i understand you correctly… yes you could pull information from Twitter without a password via RSS.

But you can’t do this with most other social services. Plus you can easily MD5 the password in the database if you are big on security (and state to the user you are doing this). Remember that this was a proof of concept to show that you can store settings in the first place. Up to you how you want to use it.

By: Nicola Greco

Nicola Greco — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:02:17 +0000

i think you have neither store password for privacy :S nor using password :S I think you can do that using only feed rss and parse them for example with simplepie

By: Michael Pratt

Michael Pratt — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:29:21 +0000

IMPORTANT FIX: just got an email from david who asked that I post this link (he is on the road)

The provided link to bp-press is invalid (he apologizes)

Here is the code: http://davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-social.txt

Create your own file and upload as nec. Thanks,

Mike

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:16:07 +0000

Wardeh,

My blog is attempting to run the php code. Duh. Try a “save link as” instead of actually clicking on it. Let me know if that works. Sorry, too much going on today!

By: Wardeh

Wardeh — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:06:55 +0000

David, I’m getting an error when I click on your link to the attached file.

By: David

David — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:16:18 +0000

Andy,

Worked pretty well. Only thing that bugged me was that i was unable to add my new menu item in the settings sub-nav in the MIDDLE of the other items. You can see my screenshot to see “Social” was between “General” and “Notifications”. Now I can either get Social below these or above these (using “1″ or “2″ in the last variable in the add_action function).

Not a big deal. Just bothers me a tiny bit. But worth it not to touch the core file.