First of all congratulations on useful Joomla extensions.

After looking at the road map for development it is apparent and understandable you are busy, development for cross extension compatibility with widely used extensions.

I am interested to know the developing planning that has led to autotweet+contentExtension coding using methods of recognising new or updated articles i.e. the use of Joomla’s core function for publishing.

Many article automation extensions write to the database directly bypassing the Joomla functions to ensure efficiency, and therefore are incompatible with autotweet+contentExtension without human intervention or as a work around a third third-party plug-in being introduced into the setup. Introduction of third-party plugins can further reduce Joomla’s efficiency.

After reading through the code of autotweet+contentExtension and 4RSS, it is a small amendment to either extension that would enable the two to be compatible and begin to talk to each other.

With this said, what measured effect (if any) would amending contentExtension to recognise new database table entries have on autotweet and its associated extensions?

Hi,

I have allready investigated this and there are 2 general solutions for this problem. All 2 has major difficulties.

1. The easiest way is, that the extension (like 4RSS) triggers an Joomla standard 'onAfterContentSave' event with correct parameters after the article is stored in the database. If so, the AutoTweet-Content-Extension plugin works out of the box. Of course this means that the developer must do this in the code of the extension.


2. I set a trigger to the database table (for new inserts). But how should I distinguish between direct inserts an normal saves...? Also "triggers" does only work with MySQL5...

And there is another big problem with all this solutions: When the article (rss) service inserts many articles at the same time, this may result in performance and rate limiting problems when the posts to twitter/facebook are done.

So the only way is to find a special solution for automatic article services, mark this artciles as "pending" and post them in packages (5 or 10 per time intervall) by a cron job (So the user must have admin access to crontab etc.).

To get this work without problems for the different usage scenarios is muche work!

BTW: There is allready a feature request (#19209) for this and I have added your sugestions there: joomlacode.org/gf/project/autotweet_ng/t...racker_item_id=19209

Ulli