inori/twitter-app-bundle

Clientless Twitter application instance to help automate project twitter updates

DISCONTINUED

This project is no longer maintained by me. If you want to take over, please get in touch with me at inoryy@gmail.com, _(*1)

Introduction

TwitterAppBundle at its core is just a simple proxy bundle between twitteroauth client and symfony2. It is only meant to be used as a clientless app. If you want to add Twitter login/register/etc functionality to your app, please consider using FOS/TwitterBundle instead., _(*2)

Example usage

Example use-case for this bundle would be automated twitter messages (from your project account) about certain events in your system., _(*3)

Installation

With deps:

Add this bundle and Abraham Williams' Twitter library to your application:, _(*4)

[twitteroauth]
    git=http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth.git

[InoriTwitterAppBundle]
    git=http://github.com/Inori/InoriTwitterAppBundle.git
    target=bundles/Inori/TwitterAppBundle

With composer:

Add this bundle to your composer.json:, _(*5)

// composer.json
{
    // ...
    require: {
        // ...
        "inori/twitter-app-bundle": "master"
    }
}

Register the namespace Inori to your project's autoloader bootstrap script:, _(*6)

//app/autoload.php
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    // ...
    'Inori'    => __DIR__.'/../vendor/bundles',
    // ...
));

Add this bundle to your application's kernel:, _(*7)

//app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
    return array(
        // ...
        new Inori\TwitterAppBundle\InoriTwitterAppBundle(),
    );
}

Configure the twitter_app service in your YAML configuration:, _(*8)

#app/config/config.yml
inori_twitter_app:
    file: %kernel.root_dir%/../vendor/twitteroauth/twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php
    consumer_key: xxxxxx
    consumer_secret: xxxxxx
    oauth_token: xxxxxx
    oauth_token_secret: xxxxxx

NB! To learn how to get keys/tokens, take a look at Twitter Developers documentation. For a quick walkthrough check below., _(*9)

Using TwitterApp

If the setup is done correctly, then you can start using TwitterApp like this:, _(*10)

// ...
$ta = $this->container->get('twitter_app');
$messages = $ta->getDirectMessages();

TwitterApp comes with some basic methods for easier usage (tweet, follow), but for most of the API features you should use twitteroauth via getApi() method like this:, _(*11)

// ...
$ta = $this->container->get('twitter_app');
$trends = $ta->getApi()->get('trends');

Getting Twitter API tokens

• Login at Twitter Developers page
• Create your application
• Go to your app profile page via My applications
• There you will see Consumer key and Consumer secret under OAuth settings
• Under Your access token you should see Access token and Access token secret, if not then simply press "Recreate my access token"
• Make sure Access level is Read, write, and direct messages, if not then then go to Settings tab and under Application Type -> Access choose Read, Write and Access direct messages