Following the last post about Twiiter modules for Joomla, been searching for some articles and tutorials about this twittering stuff, I came to this good tutorial Twitter Follower Counter which will display the number of our twitter followers and then I decided to make a Joomla module for this simple stuff.

So here you go the Lab's Tweet Follower Counter module for your Joomla blog or company site. You can see this module in action on my inset module position on the sidebar.

Chocksy from AjaxMaster already provide us with the psd file to edit the overall image or 'Follow Me' word on the image. Download the psd here. Those are files that needed for his tutorial including the psd file. Just unzip it and find the psd's.

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Tweet Follower Counter How to

Just install as usual then set the module parameters with your twitter account details. for the RSS ID, you can see it on the RSS link at the bottom right of your twitter account page. The format is like this,

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15685602.rss

the 15685602 is the RSS ID of mine.

Here's to your Joomla Blogging Success. Enjoy the module! Don't forget to rate this module on Joomla Extensions Directory.

Some Issue

In case someone has a xml parser issue, please use this fix below - I'm not able to confirm this because I'm not experiencing this before.

In /module/mod_tweetfollower/helper.php find the codes below,

$friends = $twitter->showUser("xml", $rssID);

Then add these 4 lines right under it,

$rsaquo="&#8250"; 
 $copy = "©" ; 
 $friends= str_replace("&rsaquo", $rsaquo, $friends); 
 $friends= str_replace("&copy", $copy, $friends); 

This fix came from Patrick at sangliersduvexin.org and he have confirmed that it works. Could you guys please confirm? Thank you.

Attachments:

File	File size
mod_tweetfollower-j15-v1.0.3.zip	49 Kb