Simple Twitter Anywhere Drupal integration

Submitted by timmillwood on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 14:48

Anywhere
Drupal
Drupal 6
Twitter

Yesterday Twitter announced their Anywhere API (http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin). So I quickly added it to a custom module.

Here's how...

function module_name_init(){
  drupal_set_html_head('<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=YourTwitterAPIKey&v=1" type="text/javascript"></script>');
  $js = "twttr.anywhere(function(twitter) {";
  $js .=	"twitter.hovercards();";
  $js .=	"twitter.linkifyUsers();";
  $js .= "});";
  drupal_add_js($js, 'inline');
}

All you need to do is change 'module_name' to your module name and change 'YourTwitterAPIKey' to your Twitter API key.

Then all the @ names on your page will turn to Twitter links, and have Twitter hover cards.