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[TUT] Adding a twitter button to your forum

This is a tutorial on how to add a twitter / tweet button to the postbit, this means that it'll appear at the bottom of every post including the initial one.

We will be editing two template files.

Note: Any member that wishes to tweet must have their own twitter account.

Steps

1) Go to http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton and select the tweet button that you would like to use.

I went with "No count".

The button looks like this:

The HTML looks like this:
[code=html]
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="none" data-via="mcomputeforums">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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2) Log into your forum and go to

Admin CP > Templates & Style > Templates > *your template* > Post Bit Templates > postbit

Find:

Code:
{$post['button_email']}{$post['button_pm']}{$post['button_www']}{$post['button_rep']}

and add

Code:
{$post['button_twitter']}

to the end so it looks like

Code:
{$post['button_email']}{$post['button_pm']}{$post['button_www']}{$post['button_rep']}{$post['button_twitter']}

Save the template.

3) Now, go to Admin CP > Templates & Style > Templates > *your template* > Post Bit Templates > Add Template

Template name: postbit_twitter

Mine looks like this

[code=html]
<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="none" data-via="mcomputeforums">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Save the template.

4) Download and open the file

Code:
inc/functions_post.php

And add the following

[code=php]
eval("\$post['button_twitter'] = \"".$templates->get("postbit_twitter")."\";");
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Save and re-upload the file, replacing the old one.

Further Explanation

So you've finished or.. you want to know what it looks like before you start changing things.

Live demo: http://mcompute.co.uk

postbit view

pop out view (When the button is pressed)

End result, what it looks like on twitter.

Mark