Twitter

Introduction

The Twitter module supports OAuth on the 1.1 version of Twitter. It uses the Twitter library codebird-php (https://github.com/jublonet/codebird-php)

Copyright (C) 2010-2014 [email protected]

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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Maintainer Contact

* Kirk Mayo kirk (at) silverstripe (dot) com

Requirements

* SilverStripe 3.0 +

Features

• Connects to Twitter API 1.1 via OAuth
• Fetches tweets for a user timeline

Composer Installation

composer require kmayo-ss/twitter-stripe

Installation Manual

1. Download the module form GitHub (Composer support to be added)
2. Extract the file (if you are on windows try 7-zip for extracting tar.gz files
3. Make sure the folder after being extracted is named 'twitter-stripe'
4. Place this directory in your sites root directory. This is the one with framework and cms in it.
5. Run in your browser - /dev/build to rebuild the database.

Usage

To use the module you will need add your OAuth details to the config, see below for example yml config

---
Name: mysite
After:
  - 'framework/*'
  - 'cms/*'
---
# YAML configuration for SilverStripe
# See http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/topics/configuration
# Caution: Indentation through two spaces, not tabs
SSTwitter:
  CONSUMER_KEY: Your Twitter Consumer Key from Twitter dashboard
  CONSUMER_SECRET: Your Twitter Consumer Secret from Twitter dashboard
  OAUTH_TOKEN: Your Twitter OAuth token from Twitter dashboard
  OAUTH_SECRET: Your Twitter OAuth secret from Twitter dashboard
  TWITTER_SCREENNAME: Your Twitter screenname/username

To fetch Tweets Twitter you need to call the constructor and the method getTweets as per the example below

			// setup the instance
			$twitter = new SSTwitter();
			// call the following method to get the number of tweets
			// this example fetches the last tweet you may 
			$tweets = (array)$twitter->getTweets(1);
			$tweet = $tweets[0];

To send tweets the constructor needs to be called and the method sendTweet needs to be used as below

		$twitter = new SSTwitter();
		$twitter->sendTweet('Your updated status');

TODO

Add more Twitter features