mikke/twitter

Small TW Connector

Twitter Connect

A Basic & Light Twitter Connector for Laravel 4.1, _(*1)

Please contribute!, _(*2)

I know there are a lot of packages for this, or library to do it, just i feel it is too much to include, to much process for the goal i had. Just simple as that, Connect, Authorize, Get User Data, my application does not need to push to tw, in the near future, i'll add more things!, _(*3)

Installation

Using Composer composer., _(*4)

You need to add the repo for the project first in your composer.json:, _(*5)

    "repositories": [
        {
            "type":"vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/mikkezavala/twitter.git"
        }
    ]

In the same require the package:, _(*6)

    {
        "require": {
            "mikke/twitter": ">=0.0.4",
        }
    }

Then just run a composer update, _(*7)

    $ composer update   

You can add the alias in your app/config/app.php, _(*8)

        'Twitter'         => 'Mikke\Twitter\Twitter',

Usage

It can be called in your controller wherever you want, just this a quick example, conecting and getting back basic information, _(*9)

You can create a config file, use existent one, or whatever you want to manage the keys, in my case i created a file called app/config/api.php and it looks like:, _(*10)

File: app/config/api.php, _(*11)

    return array(
        'twitter' => array(
            'api_key' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
            'api_secret' => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
            'api_callback' => 'http://some.com/callback',
            'api_token' => '',
            'api_token_secret' => '',
        )
    );


````


File: app/routes.php

```php

    Route::get('/', function(){
        $twitter = new TwitterConnect(Config::get('api.twitter'));
        $twitter->authorize();
    });
    Route::get('twitter/validate', function(){

        Config::set('api.twitter.api_token', Input::get('oauth_token'));
        $twitter = new TwitterConnect(Config::get('api.twitter'));

        if($twitter->access_token(Input::get('oauth_verifier'))){
            $data = $twitter->user_data();
            print_r($data);
        }


    });

Contribute

This is just a simple connector, you can fork me, or contribute to this, the idea is this to make it easier, and collaborative, in the next week i'll be releasing more connectors, _(*12)