TweetSuite for WordPress Plugin – W3C Validation Error: Fixed

Jeff — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:53:23 +0000

TweetSuite is a great plugin, it has a widget for displaying your latest tweets, displays tweetbacks, and lets you add in links to tweet or re-tweet a post on your blog. There’s more then a few things that need to be fixed with this plugin (ref: TweetSuite Errors and Troubleshooting), right now I’m just going to focus on some markup validation errors I came across.

The widget for displaying your latest tweets lists each tweet enclosed with li (listed item) tags. Unfortunately, these listed items have no unordered or ordered list parent tag. This causes a the markup to be invalid. To fix this is quite easy…

Open TweetSuite.php and goto line 907:

$buff = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $table_name order by datetime desc limit $max");
 
foreach ($buff as $line) {
	$tweet = $line->tweet;
	$link = $line->link;
	$dt = date('m/d/y h:ia', $line->datetime);
	$output .="\"tweet\">$tweet $dt
";
}
echo $output;

and add in the appropriate opening and closing tags…

$buff = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $table_name order by datetime desc limit $max");
 
$output = "";
 
foreach ($buff as $line) {
	$tweet = $line->tweet;
	$link = $line->link;
	$dt = date('m/d/y h:ia', $line->datetime);
	$output .="\"tweet\">$tweet $dt
";
}
 
$output .="
";
 
echo $output;

This will enclose all the listed items with an unordered list tag, thus fixing the invalid markup.

The other problem I found was that some of the tweets had special characters (such as an ampersand) that were not converted to the specific html character code. This will also cause validation errors. To convert any special characters to use the appropriate special character code, we’ll need to make a real simple change.

Open TweetSuite.php and goto line 915:

915	$output .=" \"tweet\">$tweet $dt ";

and change it to…

915	$output .=" \"tweet\">" . htmlspecialchars($tweet) . " $dt ";

This will now convert any special characters in a tweet to use special character code.

Jeff Malterre » tweetsuite

TweetSuite for WordPress Plugin – W3C Validation Error: Fixed