Twire and Buddypress
Hi,
Well as you know I’ve been working on Twire. Â Specifically getting the sitewide and user activity to work. Â Well, after diving down for days in to buddypress I’ve final found why Twire and sitewide activity are not working. Â It is due to php’s limit of what it calls an integer and how twitter gives large numbered id’s to it’s tweets. Â This could be avoided as Buddypress allocated the size to handle a large integer in it’s database, but they didn’t do the right sprintf conversion in the code to do it. Â Arg.
There is no easy way around this. Â I started to modify buddypress, but who would modify the code to use the plugin?
So two new ideas to try:
1. Â Make a map of what twitter calls a post and what I call a post (that has issues)
2. Â Break down and duplicate twitter inside buddypress. Â Meaning make a table of all the user’s tweets in buddypress.
This seems to be the best route, but will delay the release days. Â Good news is Twire will work even if twitter goes down
with this approach.
So stay tuned until I get the twitter table in the db created and populated. Â Ugh!!!
Here’s a screen shot of the new layout though.
Twire
June 22, 2009
Posted in: Plugins, Twire, buddypress
David Aubin
7 Responses
Great! Thanks for the update. Looks great.
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Looking good!
Unfortunate to hear about the table duplication.
Have you brought up this issue with the BP devs?
-Ray
Or, submit a patch to fix this in BuddyPress and I will review it.
Hey Andy,
There is more than one place for a code change, but in the database you for user and sitewide activity you have a bigint 10 allocated(very nice)
That’s more than enough for twitter id’s:) But when you essentially do an sprintf in the exists routine in the activity
class it gets truncated due to converting to a %d. I troubleshot it down to there. When I made the change to buddypress to fix the %d limitation
it did fix in that spot, but I think there are other places in Buddypress that also do the %d conversion truncating as my
test just failed later on after that.
I’ll investigate what it takes to mimic wire and get a twitter table in the db populated based on my current logic and go from there.
People have been bugging me for this for weeks now and I don’t want to disappoint:)
Thanks,
Dave:)
Andy (the man himself) said he’d take care of it if I provide a patch. I told him what I found, but for now I’ll
doe the table solution as that should work as long as you don’t have over ~2 billion tweets;)
Thanks:) I’ll try to take a stab at the table tonight. Fingers crossed it all goes well:)
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