Comments on: How To Create A Dynamic “Tweet This Button” With PHP

By: Enzo

Enzo — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:15:54 +0000

You can shorten any url using a service like http://twig.mx just make the url call their api like this and make sure you use the http prefix in the url variable like this. If your url already has the http prefix, then just leave off the http prefix in the call to twig.

$newurl = “http://www.twig.mx/api-create.php?url=http://” . $url;
$shorturl = file_get_contents($newurl);

$newurl = “http://www.twig.mx/api-create.php?url=” . $url;
$shorturl = file_get_contents($newurl);

The $shorturl will contain a shortened url.

Then use the $shorturl in the HREF as shown above.

By: Graham Kendall

Graham Kendall — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:52:41 +0000

Thanks for a nice post.

I’ve just reported a way to automatically tweet at http://graham-kendall.com/blog/?p=103/, which seems to work pretty well (at least at the moment :-)).

I have also recently implemented automatic shortening of URLs (using the bit.ly API), which I’ll blog about soon, as well being able to tweet (on average) a set number of times a day (again, blog post coming soon).

By: Jefri

Jefri — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:56:53 +0000

Do you have any idea to make a “share this” button for http://my-status.net ?
it’s a new social media based on microblogging platform like Twitter..

By: Liam Dawe

Liam Dawe — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:33:53 +0000

Is there a way to add the ability to add “#Stuff” to it taking that into account with the character limit but being sure to keep it in? So people can see topics.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:47:29 +0000

Not currently.

By: Gilberto

Gilberto — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:35:50 +0000

Is there a way to shorten the url?

By: Tony Whittaker

Tony Whittaker — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:55:13 +0000

Great script. Thanks. And if you add onclick=”w=window.open(this.href,\’tweet\’,\’width=800,height=450,scrollbars,resizable,left=0,top=0\’); w.focus(); return false;\”
between the a and href, and remove the target=blank, you can get it to open in a popup window instead.

Best wishes

Tony

By: DeZiner76hd

DeZiner76hd — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:48:44 +0000

This is a great script and so is your html script. The html script I can get working the php script I am confused on how to implement it. Where does the actual fuction go so it can be called?
Thank you
DeZiner

By: Nicholas Rush

Nicholas Rush — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:58:26 +0000

Another good piece of code, personally I prefer php over Java for such. I feel that more browsers find php acceptable.

By: Peter Elsner

Peter Elsner — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:59:13 +0000

Nevermind what I just said. I see what the script is supposed to do I was reading the description as to what it was supposed to do incorrectly…