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Insert latest Twitter update as Gallery Description - jesse - 2012-12-10
Hi.
Any ideas how I could go about having Zenphoto pull my latest twitter status in and display it as my 'Gallery Description' on the front page?
Thanks,
Jesse
Insert latest Twitter update as Gallery Description - jesse - 2012-12-10
Just clarifying I *did* search and found dead links pointing to "ZenTwitter"
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=6445
Thanks!
Edit:
I found this on pulling the Twitter feed using PHP, but so far cannot figure out where I would put this code to have it display. I'm using the default theme.
"Add a Twitter Feed with PHP"
http://blog.ninanet.com/2010/04/19/twitter-feed-with-php
Insert latest Twitter update as Gallery Description - jesse - 2012-12-10
and... I seem to be solving my own problem, so I'll share.
Ninanet's code is great.
I dropped the php part into the <head> area of the default theme's index.php file.
Further down I found the "gallery description" insert point, deleted that line, and replaced it with the HTML from nina's code.
Took a bit of tweaking (I removed the text so that only the twitter content shows, reformatted it a bit) but it works.
post here if you'd like more description though I'm sure most of you know far more than me.
Thanks!
Insert latest Twitter update as Gallery Description - acrylian - 2012-12-10
You also could have read the theming tutorial to learn the basics of Zenphoto themes first..:-)
NOTE: That this solution uses the RSS feed Twitter bascially secretly provides for each account. This will break soon as Twitter has announced its new API a while ago and announced to abandon RSS and other things after a grace period:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/overview#JSON_support_only
You then will have to use the OAuth API to do what you wish or use the widgets Twitter provides.