Lee Turner

It is amazing what can happen when a simple bit of code is looked at by a group of talented developers..... Hot on the heels of the previous Twitterlution update we now have another one by ¥åßßå.

Right from the start Twitterlution was reliant on a PHP extension called curl which allowed the plugin to talk to twitter. This was OK for the majority of people but every so often a b2evo user would find that their host hadn't enabled curl on their PHP installation, which effectively meant that they couldn't use the plugin. As of this release, the plugin will use curl if it is there but if not fall back to a way that doesn't use a php extension. This is very cool as it opens up the plugin to more people.

The second update is the addition of a new placeholder that will get replaced when your message is posted through to twitter. Now the $title$, $excerpt$ and $url$ placeholders will be replaced appropriately. The Excerpt field can be found on the Expert tab when writing a new post.

These new features have been included into the b2evolution 3.2.0-beta version and for 2.4.x user, go get the plugin from the Twitterlution plugin page and enjoy.

Thanks again ¥åßßå for the update

Best,