Too many projects, too little time » twitter http://joydutta.com/blog Joy Dutta on technology, photography, motorcycling, aviation and other things Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:45:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 WordPress fusion theme: twitter widget link problem http://joydutta.com/blog/2009/10/24/wordpress-fusion-theme-twitter-widget-link-problem/ http://joydutta.com/blog/2009/10/24/wordpress-fusion-theme-twitter-widget-link-problem/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:44:20 +0000 therider http://joydutta.com/blog/?p=653 The twitter sidebar widget in the fusion theme of wordpress shows weird in Firefox browser, due to the encoding of the double quotes in the href attribute. For example, a link from a twitter post shows like this in source:

  1. <a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/foo123&quot;>bar</a>

Safari in quite intelligent regarding this and displays the links right.

A look in the code revealed that the output from twitter webservice call is not completely decoded. The function fusion_TwitterWidget() in wp-content/themes/fusion/functions.php looks like this after an easy fix:

  1. // theme widget: Twitter
  2. function fusion_TwitterWidget($args){
  3.  extract($args);
  4.  echo $before_widget;
  5.  print $before_title.__(‘Twitter posts’,'fusion’).$after_title; ?>
  6.  
  7.  <?php
  8.  $username = get_option(‘fusion_twitterid’);
  9.  $limit = get_option(‘fusion_twitterentries’);
  10.  if($username<>”) {
  11.   $feed = file_get_contents("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:" . $username . "&rpp=" . $limit);
  12.  
  13.   // joyd: fix for the broken hyperlinks of twitter plugin due to encoded quotes
  14.   // $feed = str_replace("&lt;", "< ", $feed);
  15.   // $feed = str_replace("&gt;", ">", $feed);
  16.   $feed = html_entity_decode($feed);
  17.  
  18.   $clean = explode("<content type=\"html\">", $feed);
  19.   $amount = count($clean) - 1;
  20.   print ‘<ul id="twitterupdates">’;
  21.   for ($i = 1; $i < = $amount; $i++) {
  22.    $cleaner = explode("</content>", $clean[$i]);
  23.    print ‘<li class="entry">’;
  24.    echo $cleaner[0];
  25.    print ‘</li>’;
  26.   }
  27.   print ‘</ul>’;
  28.  }
  29.  
  30.  echo $after_widget;
  31. }

Thanks a lot to Francesco to point this out !

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