Adding simple Tweet this for Magento products

There are few different ways one can achieve this kind of functionality. Normally in Magento you would do it like a real, “independent”, module (extension) thus loosing at least two ours to make a few lines of code work.

The simplest way to add this kind of feature to your product view page is to open the view.phtml file under the app/design/frontend/default/custom/template/catalog/product/ folder.

And add the following code where you sish to show your “Tweet this” link:

<a title="Send this page to Twitter!" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Check out the <?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getName()) ?> at < ?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>" target="_blank">Tweet This!</a>

Thats it. Remember, this is truly the simplest solution, aka Quick & Dirty. For more fancy stuff… we do custom deevelopment

Cheers.

By Branko Ajzele from Inchoo.net

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