Earlier today, I mentioned an idea for a Drupal module that would integrate the Ping This! service by Ping.fm mentioned here.

After thinking over how the features should work, I was able to very quickly put together the base of the module from much of code I used for the ShareThis module, making some minor modifications.

PingThis Features:

Currently, using the PingThis module, will allow you to add a link to your posts that will give yourself along with visitors to your site the ability to quickly share posts by using Ping.fm. There couldn't be a better way to allow users to promote your page(s) than by simply posting it to ALL of their social networking sites at once!!

Current Features include:

• Select node types you wish to display the PingThis module on
• Select user roles allowed to use the PingThis module
• Choose to display in $teaser view or not
• Change default posting mode (none/status/microblog/blog)
• Enter custom text to prepend the title of article when a user submits link to Ping.fm
• Turn PingThis off/on

Proposed Features:

The following are features that I think will be useful and included in an upcoming release of PingThis. If you have a feature in mind, please comment on it here, and/or request a feature at the official drupal.org proect page for PingThis.

• Ability to include the PingThis interface as a block that is not tied to the node as well.
  This gives the opportunity to use it in a block in the sidebar for example that will allow it to appear on the home page, and/or every page so that it is tied to the page being viewed, not just the node.
• More feature ideas pending...

Further Information & Support

• Official PingThis Project Page
• Request support
• Report new bug
• Request new feature
• Report a security issue

Installation Instructions for PingThis

• First download latest release for PingThis below, or on the official project page.
• After unpacking tar.gz archive, upload the "pingthis" folder & files to your modules folder (/sites/default/modules/)
• Enable the module at admin/build/modules
• Set permissions at admin/user/permissions
• Configure options and turn PingThis module on at admin/settings/ping-this
• Enjoy cool features!!!

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