Gatorpeeps.com is a new African centric, Twitter like micro blogging service from the creators of Afrigator.Initially I was quite surprised Afrigator launched a Twitter like service, given the history of similar endeavors. That said, I’m willing to give it a shot, after all, it’s success is dependant on a relevant service (Localised tweeting, worth a shot), good functionality (Taken care of by The Stiig @stii) and most of all - the community (That’s you!).

I’ve added their feed to my lifestream and created the neccesary template and CSS snippets for the boxy theme, see below.

Step 1:

Add the following CSS to ’system/application/views/themes/boxy/main.css’


.afrigator_com { font-size:20px;background:#282828 url(images/gator.jpg) no-repeat bottom center; color:#e8e8e8; font-family:georgia; text-transform:uppercase; }
.afrigator_cominner { padding:10px; }
.afrigator_com a { text-decoration:none; color:#fff; font-family:georgia; text-transform:uppercase; }
.afrigator_com span a { font-size:12px;}


Step 2:

Add the following snippet of PHP to ’system/application/views/themes/boxy/_activity_feed.php’


<?php elseif ($item->get_feed_domain() == 'afrigator.com'): ?>
<div class="afrigator_cominner">
<p class="afrigator_tweet">
<span><a href="http://gatorpeeps.com/robinpietersen">@robinpietersen:</a></span>
<br />
<?php echo $item->get_content()?></p>
</div>


Step 3:

Upload the following image to ’system/application/views/themes/boxy/images’

Step 4:

Add your Gatorpeeps feed via the admin (Example: http://afrigator.com/peeps/feed/user/robinpietersen)

Give it time to update, and your done.

UPDATE: Thank you to Ian Barnes (The duck with long arms) for his help in getting it to work correctly.