BWTwitter

[demafkees]

Hello everyone,

We have developed a module that allows you to show multiple Twitter timelines, and different types of timelines like search results, hashtags or Twitter accounts.

Requirements:
CMS Made Simple 1.5.4 or higher

Description:
The goal of BWTwitter is to make showing tweets from different sources as easy as possible. Multiple sources can be created (user profiles, hashtags, search terms) and grouped. Sources can also be called individually.

How do I use it?
BWTwitter can be used with the {BWTwitter} tag in every page or template. You can either show a group of sources or call sources individually. (See parameters)

How does it work?
By default the database with tweets is refreshed when the {BWTwitter} tag is called on a page. If a specific group or source is given as a parameter, only those sources will be refreshed to keep loading time as low as possible. You can let the database be refreshed, even when the tag is not called on a page, on the settings tab. You can also set the time that should have passed before a source is refreshed. We recommend settings this at 5 minutes (300 seconds) to keep loading time as low as possible and to not exceed the maxium amount of requests to Twitter.

Users
If you don't want to show tweets from a specific user you can search for the user in the users tab and deactivate the user. Tweets from this user won't be saved in the database and won't be shown if deactivated.

The module can be found here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/bwtwitter. We'd love to hear your feedback!

We hope you enjoy it!

[staartmees]

cmsms 1.5.4?

[demafkees]

That is the minimum yes. Had to make it so it worked with some of our more ancient client websites.

[Dr.CSS]

Those sites are all vulnerable to XXS exploits...

[staartmees]

Those old cmcms ain't safe anymore. In case of problems, support is only given for the most recent versions of cmsms.

[Rolf]

It works great though!

Thanks, Rolf

[demafkees]

@staartmees: That's fair enough. All our websites are monitored regularly. We just couldn't update 300+ websites knowing how much of a pain updating CMSMS can be sometimes. However, I feel that's a whole different topic.

[staartmees]

That's why it's important to keep your websites up-to-date. There will be a day websites stop working and your are forced to update them all with a lof of more difficulties compared to keeping them up-to-date day by day.