This package hides away the complexity of "talking" to the Twitter API, but instead offers a few simple functions to execute some basic queries.
- All queries require an API key and API secret to generate App Credentials
- Authorization will be triggered automatically behind the scenes
- Fetch a user's tweets with a single method call
- Search Twitter for a hash tag or keyword
- Get the results in standard JSON format, or use our simplified
Tweet
objects - Optional Caching (only Laravel implementation included, see codezero-be/courier)
- Optional Laravel ServiceProvider included
Install this package through Composer:
"require": {
"codezero/twitter": "1.*"
}
After installing, update your app/config/app.php
file to include a reference to this package's service provider in the providers array:
'providers' => [
'CodeZero\Twitter\TwitterServiceProvider'
]
Next, create the config file: app/config/twitter.php
. Or publish the package config file by running this command in the console:
php artisan config:publish codezero/twitter
Specify the location of your config file. An example configuration file is included in the src/config
folder. You can put this anywhere you want.
$config = '/path/to/configFile.php';
Create Twitter instance:
use CodeZero\Twitter\Twitter;
$twitter = new Twitter($config);
Your configuration file should look like the following:
<?php
return [
'base_url' => 'https://api.twitter.com/',
'api_version' => '1.1',
'api_key' => '',
'api_secret' => ''
];
Be sure to enter your API key and API secret. Twitter requires this for all requests. Also, do not include the API version in the base_url
as this would break the authorization request.
The number of results to return. Each Twitter request has a maximum limit. If you specify a $count
greater than this limit, the maximum results will be returned. (Default: 10
)
$count = 10;
The number of minutes the results of the query should be cached. Twitter sets a request limit per hour, so caching is a good idea. Setting this to 0
(zero) will disable caching. (Default: 30
)
$cacheMinutes = 30;
This package includes a Tweet
object which greatly simplifies the returned results. If you want the full JSON response to be returned, set this to false
. (Default: true
)
$returnEntities = true;
try
{
$username = 'laravelphp'; //=> Example...
$tweets = $twitter->getTweetsFromUser($username, $count, $cacheMinutes, $returnEntities);
}
catch (\CodeZero\Twitter\TwitterException $e)
{
$error = $e->getMessage(); //=> user not found etc.
}
If you $returnEntities
is false
, you get a CodeZero\Courier\Response
object, which contains the actual JSON response.
$tweets = $twitter->getTweetsFromUser($username);
echo $tweets; //=> Print the JSON
$json = $tweets->getBody(); //=> Returns the JSON
$array = $tweets->toArray(); //=> Convert JSON to an array
For more information on this Response
object, refer to codezero-be/courier.
If you $returnEntities
is true
, you get an array of CodeZero\Twitter\Entities\Tweet
objects. This is a very simplified Tweet
object, which only contains the most useful info about the tweet and its user.
$tweets = $twitter->getTweetsFromUser($username);
foreach ($tweets as $tweet)
{
$user = $tweet->user();
$tweetOwner = $user->getName();
$tweetUsername = $user->getUsername();
$tweetText = $tweet->getText();
$tweetDate = $tweet->getCreatedAt();
}
For an overview of all available Tweet
and User
information, take a look at the source.
$username = 'laravelphp';
$tweets = $twitter->getTweetsFromUser($username, $count, $cacheMinutes, $returnEntities);
$query = '#laravel';
$tweets = $twitter->searchTweets($query, $count, $cacheMinutes, $returnEntities);