Hi,
I've created some pages on my site for latest news and job vacancies and have included the twitter social integration link for 'tweet this to your followers'
However, when I click this, it opens my link in Twitter but doesn't add a TINY URL.
I've checked in the K2 parameters and the option to show Tiny URL is checked.
If I uncheck this then the tweet shows the link, but it is too long.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

have you tried sign up with bit.ly and integrates with Twitter?

Last time I was using this for JReview, and I signed up Bit.ly, then I added my Twitter accounts on bit.ly page. I don't know if this will solve your problem, but maybe worth a try.

ps: k2 are becoming so popular, they are having shortage of workers. They never answer these days.

In my case, this was because the file_get_contents function in PHP is disabled by my host. This is a common hosting restriction, for security. I fixed this by replacing it with CURL function instead. To make the fix, find components/com_k2/views/item/view_html.php and replace:

if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {
$itemURLForTwitter = ($params->get('tinyURL')) ? @file_get_contents('tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL) : $item->absoluteURL;
$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

With:

if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {

$itemURLForTwitter = $item->absoluteURL;

if($params->get('tinyURL')) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$itemURLForTwitter = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}

$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

Before I start hacking my K2, has anyone else successfully done this? (No offense Ivan, I'm sure it works).

Ivan Descartes said:In my case, this was because the file_get_contents function in PHP is disabled by my host. This is a common hosting restriction, for security. I fixed this by replacing it with CURL function instead. To make the fix, find components/com_k2/views/item/view_html.php and replace...

Excellent. This working fine.

Worked perfectly. Thank you!

Works GREAT :D


Ivan Descartes said:In my case, this was because the file_get_contents function in PHP is disabled by my host. This is a common hosting restriction, for security. I fixed this by replacing it with CURL function instead. To make the fix, find components/com_k2/views/item/view_html.php and replace:
if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {
$itemURLForTwitter = ($params->get('tinyURL')) ? @file_get_contents('tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL) : $item->absoluteURL;
$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

With:

if ($params->get('itemTwitterLink') && $params->get('twitterUsername')) {

$itemURLForTwitter = $item->absoluteURL;

if($params->get('tinyURL')) {
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url='.$item->absoluteURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$itemURLForTwitter = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
}

$item->twitterURL = 'twitter.com/home/?status='.urlencode('Reading @'.$params->get('twitterUsername').' '.$item->title.' '.$itemURLForTwitter);
}

yes it works great !! Thanks for the tip !!

Thanks this fixed it for me too!

Worked here too. Thank you.