AutoTweet [support]

[sunflowertami]

Ok I got it.

How come activating a new category and thereby making all the products within it green or activated will not trigger the tweet? Is it a different system working on automatic activate as opposed to those I move and manually turn green?

I have tested and moved one of the product on the temp category to the active category and turned it green. There was no tweet.
(It was tweeted before under the temp category when it was not active)

Reverting back to the original php file.

I think the module works so great! I'm a big fan of this indeed as it saves me a lot of time in tweeting it individually. I know I'm asking the sun and moon especially for free module but it would be great if it can only tweet when the product turns green whether or not it was manually turned green or automatically turned green by activating a new category.

[jamielife]

yeah its not the best method; Once the product is in an active category and is active itself, you have to go in and update the product (as if you were changing the price or description or image). You don't actually have to go and change anything just click 'update' and then 'insert' on the following page as if you were.

This is a work around because the file where autotweet is located (update_product.php) does exactly that, it either adds a new product or updates an existing product. a differenct file controls whether or not the product is active and unfortunately it is a file I'm unfamilar with.

[sunflowertami]

Hmm...well thanks for trying! I think I'll just use the original php file. It will still tweet the stuff on my temp category and people will click on it to get to my site however it will say product not found.

At this point, I'm grateful it got them to my site!! hopefully if they are interested, they will actually do a search and look for the product!

Anyway, in your future updates or revisions, you may want to look into this.

Thanks again! this is really the best module I've installed on my site so far!!! Keep at it!!

[jamielife]

Update: AutoTweet version 1.01 has just been submitted to zen cart for review and should be available soon.

It is basically updated to better integrate with zen cart version 1.3.9a and future releases. Also I have included some minor fixes for bugs/issues discovered on this forum including:

• issue with descriptions not posting to twitter.
• issue with 'cannot redeclare class' error.

Anyone wishing to install the upgrade now may do so at: http://htmyell.com/autotweet-v-1-01/

As always, please let me know what you think/if there's any problems.

Thanks,
Jamie

[jamielife]

Just an FYI AutoFacebook is now available at: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=1623

[sumri]

Hi,
great modules. save lot of my time.
i think there's a minor bugs in this module.
Right after after inserting new products into my website. The number of visitors showed quite a big number sometime '20++ guest' online, sometime '30++ guest online'.
before this, the number never exceed 10 guests in one time.
Am i missing something?

[jamielife]

Haha that's the beauty of twitter. I notice regular tweeting can make a huge impact on the number of visitors I receive a day. All this mod does is shorten and send a link to twitter... it doesnt have any affect on your online visitors counter. So I wouldnt call it a bug, more like the purpose of this mod.

[cavatappo]

This has turned out to be a great mod. I was hesitant at first, as I would have liked what @sunflowertami was asking for as well. We have a restaurant, and there are several 'specials' we sometimes come back to due to popularity. Once we add a menu item, it would be great to go from RED to GREEN and have it tweet automatically without the extra step.

Hmm...well thanks for trying! I think I'll just use the original php file. It will still tweet the stuff on my temp category and people will click on it to get to my site however it will say product not found.

It was tweeting immediately after I added a new menu item, even if status was 'out of stock' (RED).
I found the culprit that was creating the tweet bug.

and replace just those 3 lines with:

 } elseif ($action == 'update_product') {
        zen_db_perform(TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION, $sql_data_array, 'update', "products_id = '" . (int)$products_id . "' and language_id = '" . (int)$language_id . "'");
 // bof Auto Tweet.
if($_POST['products_status'] = "1"){
include 'twitter/twitter.php';
require_once 'twitter/bitly.php';

// CHANGE: path to your store (i.e. http://example.com/store
$myStoreUrl = 'http://www.example.com';
// CHANGE: Your stores Twitter username and password
$twitter = new Twitter("TwitterUsername","TwitterPassword");
// CHANGE: Your bit.ly Username and API Key
// API Key should be a long number starting with "R_"
// available free @ http://bit.ly/account/your_api_key
$bitly = new Bitly('myBITLYusername', 'R_321321321321321');

// ##### No need to change below this line #####
// URL for bitly.php to shorten
$shirturl = $myStoreUrl . '/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=' . $current_category_id . '&products_id=' . $products_id ;
// send tweet.
$shirtname = $sql_data_array['products_name'];
$mytweet ='New Product Available: "' . $shirtname . '" Check it out at ' . $bitly->shorten($shirturl);
$twitter->updateStatus($mytweet);
}// eof Auto-Tweet
      } 

Follow @jamielife's directions above, but where...

if($_POST['products_status'] = "1"){ 

change to...

if($_POST['products_status'] == 1){ 

This should do the trick. it would still be nice for the action to perform when turning RED to GREEN, but this should solve it tweeting when inactive. Great mod @jamielife!

[dvdalt]

I have installed the autotweet, but the file name update_product.php is the same file name for the autofacebook which i upload earlier, what can i do to fix this and have both working at the same time

[Zozelli]

If Twitter goes down for any reason for instance, over capacity, the Twitter add on will cause an error on the cart website. Would it be possible to add an if-then-else type catch all to handle such a situation? New products cannot be entered while Twitter is down unless the code is commented out or some other workaround is used. The tweet goes out but the new product addition isn't realized and has to be reentered.