I finally got around to stripping down, gutting, and well actually just re-writing the WVURL.com code from scratch. I added a more visually pleasing interface, faster more simple code, all while keeping the existing url’s in the database.
I plan to add a few things in the coming days to make it super easy to send out the URL’s once shortened via various methods (twitter, facebook, email, clipboard, etc).
Im preparing to release some new software over the weekend, as well as some revisions to existing software, mainly phptweetpic and twitterfollow.
The updates to twitterfollow will include more controls and some other features, and tweetpic will include an oauth version as well as some bug fixes and admin area redesign.
Stay tuned!
Just made a couple updates to the WV ReTweeters (@beckleyrt, @princetonrt, @charlestonrt, @morgantownrt, and @huntingtonrt)
The code now appends each message with RT @theauthor, where “theauthor” is the name of the original poster. The pipe for the feeds have been modified to IGNORE all tweets that start with RT. This is in response to the programs retweeting their own tweets.
The messages are also now limited to a set number of characters before they are cut off and a URL is generated to the original message. This is in response to some double URL’s and triple URL situations where the overflow was automatically linked, and then the link was then linked.
Thats all for now folks!
Im asking you the public if i should release my auto tweeter program. Its a php script that you can do alot of different things with but first and formost it allows you to post to a twitter account, many twitter accounts, one message, different messages, random messages, and a multitude of other things.
Ill decide on how to proceed as the reples pour in.
Just now i launched 4 new retweeters for the WV areas of Huntington, Charleston, Morgantown, and Princeton/Bluefield.
You can find them at the following addresses;
http://www.twitter.com/huntingtonrt
http://www.twitter.com/charlestonrt
http://www.twitter.com/morgantownrt
http://www.twitter.com/princetonrt
All ReTweeters automatically update every 20 minutes with feeds supplying relevant tweets to that particular locale.
All retweeters are utilizing my phpautotweet application and are initially propigated with my phptwitterfollow application
Ran into a unique problem when i switched servers from innohost back to hostgator(more on that later). Aparently, for some reason passing a full url to wvurl’s api (wvurl.com/api-create.php) caused the server to return index.php and its subsequent headers.
After much time spent with support finding out if it was something server side to blame, I found a workaround by using str_replace to replace the colon in the url, with %3A and then pass the URL to the script.
This was a problem because three autotweet programs (beckleyrt, wvjobs, and wvurl twitter) all rely on the wvurl api to generate their URL’s.
The site is now updated and the API examples reflect the changes.