Twitter Tweets

Hi Wilt....I have been trying to get this to work cos I think it's great and will be a definite time saver lol I am however having an issue...when I add a new product I get these warnings on the next page:

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/christon/public_html/digiscraps/changedadmindirectory/includes/modules/update_product.php on line 203

Warning: file_get_contents(http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.havendesignz.com/digiscraps/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1079) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/christon/public_html/digiscraps/changedadmindirectory/includes/modules/update_product.php on line 203

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/christon/public_html/digiscraps/changedadmindirectory/includes/modules/update_product.php:203) in /home/christon/public_html/digiscraps/changedadmindirectory/includes/functions/general.php on line 21
```The product does get added to both the catalog and twitter...just the link does not lol

My admin section is password protected from CPanel, would this make a difference?

LissaE:

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

no suitable wrapper could be found
It has nothing to do with your cPanel.

Your hosting company has prohibited the use of the PHP file_get_contents() function from accessing files outside your server.

You'd have to have the hosting company relax their security (not likely an option), or rewrite the code to use another method to talk to external services.

Thanx DrByte, I did some Google searches yesterday and came to the same conclusion lol

Unfortunately I know just enough about programming to make me dangerous and not enough to rewrite the code, so unless anyone feels like jumping in this will have to take a backburner for me lol :)

countrycharm:

I have inserted the code and it is where it is suppose to be. My problem is this, when i insert a new product I get the error message bar at the top but their is no writing or nothing besides the error bar. When I look at the source code it don't show up. What am I doing wrong. Thank you.

Are you sure that the PHP Curl extensions are available in the version of PHP your server is using.

LissaE:

Thanx DrByte, I did some Google searches yesterday and came to the same conclusion lol

Unfortunately I know just enough about programming to make me dangerous and not enough to rewrite the code, so unless anyone feels like jumping in this will have to take a backburner for me lol :)

Note the call to the tinyURl service is not strictly necessary and you could try the code without it, i.e just passing the plain url as part of the message.

Twitter itself will try and shorten Urls in a message.

Thanx Wilt :)

How would I try and pass the plain url?

edited to add....would I just remove the tinyurl bits, like so:

// BOF twitter feed
    
    if ($action == 'insert_product')
    {
      $purl = zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $products_id);
      function updateStatus($user, $password, $message)
      {
        $url = "https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";
        $curl = curl_init($url);
        $data = array('status'=>$message);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.':'.$password);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
        $result = @curl_exec($curl);
        curl_close($curl);
        return $result;
      }
      $message = STORE_NAME . ' has a new product. ' . $purl;
      $user = 'limelites';
      $password = '********';
      updateStatus($user, $password, $message);
    }
    // EOF twitter feed  
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Ok, I tried the above, and it worked! The url was converted to bit.ly ... thanx Wilt :)

Dunno how those span tags got in my post LOL

limelites:

OK, answered my own question again:
**
$display_special_price = zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, true)**

But how do you get the price to display to two places after the decimal point? At present, it's displaying £49.9900 instead of £49.99

How did you get this to work? What code did you use, and what file does it go in. I have everything else working like I want it. Thanks

Wilt, could you please, put all this improves:

$_POST['products_name'][$_SESSION['languages_id']]

$display_special_price = zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, true)

round(zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, false), 2)

like must be in the message row please?

I try in this way:

$message = STORE_NAME . ' has a new product. ' . $_POST['products_name'][$_SESSION['languages_id']] . round(zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, false), 2) . $tinyPurl;

without success...

countrycharm:

How did you get this to work? What code did you use, and what file does it go in. I have everything else working like I want it. Thanks

/includes/modules/update_product.php

**round(zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, false), 2) **

limelites:

/includes/modules/update_product.php

**round(zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, false), 2) **
Thanks for the update

mipavluk:

Wilt, could you please, put all this improves:

$_POST['products_name'][$_SESSION['languages_id']]

$display_special_price = zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, true)

round(zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, false), 2)

like must be in the message row please?

I try in this way:

$message = STORE_NAME . ' has a new product. ' . $_POST['products_name'][$_SESSION['languages_id']] . round(zen_get_products_special_price($products_id, false), 2) . $tinyPurl;

> 
> without success...


Hi,

need some more information. When you say without success, do you mean no message is sent to twitter.

Are you including this in the product update code, as shown in previous posts. 

Can you get any message to send to twitter. 
ie if you just set 

$message = 'This is a test";

also I have been informed that some people have problems calling twitter using an https domain and that setting

$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";

in the updateStatus function, works better.

I finally solved... was my syntaxis I think... the code works exactly like you provide...

thanks...

:no: I have not been able, what is the final text :?

// BOF twitter feed
    
    if ($action == 'insert_product')
    {
      $purl = zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $products_id);
      $tinyPurl = file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$purl);
      function updateStatus($user, $password, $message)
      {
        $url = "[URL]https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml[/URL]";
        $curl = curl_init($url);
        $data = array('status'=>$message);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.':'.$password);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
        $result = @curl_exec($curl);
        curl_close($curl);
        return $result;
      }
      $message = STORE_NAME . ' has a new product. ' . $tinyPurl;
      $user = 'YYYYYYYYY';
      $password = 'XXXXXXXXX';
      $result = updateStatus($user, $password, $message);
      $messageStack->add_session($result, 'error');
    }
    // EOF twitter feed

YYYYYYY: your username
XXXXXX: your password

I try with price and product name, but like in my store, product name is so large, I decide go with wilt text :smile:

Hi, I have been able to successfully use this great Tweet but I have to make 2 separate mods if I put my item on sale.

For example, if I have an item listed for $12 but put it on sale for $7 then it tweets $12 so then I have to go in and hard code to $display_special_price SO my question is.....

Is it possible that it picks the current price whether it is a sale or not?

Thanks Wilt & everyone for all the help.

Wilt

I install the mod for another zen... and does not work...
the same like countrycharm here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=766963&postcount=36

I get the error area, without text and no post in twitter

I check with the hosting about the PHP Curl extensions and they said are available in my hosting account

I will pm you my code...

thanks in advance...

mipavluk:

Wilt

I install the mod for another zen... and does not work...
the same like countrycharm here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=766963&postcount=36

I get the error area, without text and no post in twitter

I check with the hosting about the PHP Curl extensions and they said are available in my hosting account

I will pm you my code...

thanks in advance...

Hi does the code look like this with the highlighted area in red?

// BOF twitter feed

if ($action == 'insert_product')
{
  $purl = zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $products_id);
  $tinyPurl = file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$purl);
  function updateStatus($user, $password, $message)
  {
    $url = "<https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml>";
    $curl = curl_init($url);
    $data = array('status'=>$message);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.':'.$password);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
    $result = @curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    return $result;
  }
  $message = STORE_NAME . ' has a new product. ' . $tinyPurl;
  $user = 'YYYYYYYYY';
  $password = 'XXXXXXXXX';
  $result = updateStatus($user, $password, $message);
  $messageStack->add_session($result, 'error');
}
// EOF twitter feedIf it does try changing the https:// to just http:// and see if that want take care of your problem.

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thank you very much!!!!!!!!
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