Twitter hook to set Twitter account based on client

[mscholten]

Hello,

 

I'm working on making it possible to show a Twitter feed based on the client. That way we can show different feeds for resellers and end-users. When someone isn't logged in I would probably show the end-user Twitter account. Changing the Twitter account for the URLs pointing to Twitter is easy. However with an AJAX (?) call it doesn't work. From WHMCS support I did hear I should be able to create some output on it when using the ClientAreaPage hookpoint. However this doesn't seem to work as the code below doesn't return any content (and that is what I would expect).

 

<?php
function whmcs_hook_test($vars){
var_dump($vars);
}

add_hook('ClientAreaPage',10,'whmcs_hook_test');

 

Any pointers as where to look? Or should I just create a new PHP file for it that gets the required information from Twitter and call that file using the Javascript?

[brian!]

are you talking about the twitter feed on the client area homepage ? where, what & how you want to do something are important when determining which hook (if any) is used...

if so, I think the twitter username is pulled directly from the database and possibly can't be overwritten with a hook.

 

if you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, i'd probably leave the homepage as is and let it use the twittername assigned in the settings and then logged in clients can see their own clientarea homepage and tweak that to show a different twitterfeed - either by a 3rd-party method or using a homepagepanel hook.

 

or don't use the built-in twitter feed option at all, but use a hook/3rd party to show a different feed depending on whether the client is logged in or not, and/or the class of the client.... depending on the twitter solution, you might not even need a hook and could be able to do it purely by editing the template with Smarty.

[owengreaves]

An interesting idea, is it, would it be possible to make the Twitter Feed a Block in the Client Area when logged in? Or does it matter if it's a block or not?

[mscholten]

I prefer to have the correct Twitter feed shown without clients having to do anything. At this moment I expect to replace a part of WHMCS to get it to work (or at least copy functionality to different files).

[brian!]

An interesting idea, is it, would it be possible to make the Twitter Feed a Block in the Client Area when logged in?

most things are possible!

 

Or does it matter if it's a block or not?

it doesn't matter... but where you want it determines which hook to use...

 

e.g if you wanted the twitter feed in a homepage panel...

 

 

the above uses RSS feeds... one from the BBC News and one, via a 3rd party, for twitter.... though you could do it directly via Twitter instead if you had to...

 

http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?106067-Trying-to-display-RSS-feeds-in-Client-Area-without-success&p=436374#post436374