cybercog/yii2-twittable

The twittable extension for the Yii2 framework

Twittable Behavior for Yii2

, _(*1)

This extension provides behavior functions for tweeting., _(*2)

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer., _(*3)

Either run, _(*4)

$ php composer.phar require cybercog/yii2-twittable "*"

or add, _(*5)

"cybercog/yii2-twittable": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file., _(*6)

Migrations

If you want to auto-post News to twitter, run the following command, _(*7)

$ yii migrate/create news_tweet_link

Open the /path/to/migrations/m_xxxxxx_xxxxxx_news_tweet_link.php file,, _(*8)

inside the up() method add the following, _(*9)

$sql = "ALTER TABLE news
        ADD COLUMN tweet_id BIGINT(64) NULL DEFAULT NULL";
$this->execute($sql);

inside the down() method add the following, _(*10)

$sql = "ALTER TABLE news
        DROP COLUMN tweet_id";
$this->execute($sql);

Configuring

use cybercog\yii\twittable\behaviors\TwittableBehavior;

/**
 * ...
 * @property string $tagNames
 */
class Post extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord
{
    public function behaviors()
    {
        return [
            [
                'class' => TwittableBehavior::className(),
                'consumerKey' => 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY',
                'consumerSecret' => 'TWITTER_SECRET_KEY',
                'accessToken' => 'TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN',
                'accessTokenSecret' => 'TWITTER_SECRET_TOKEN',
                'autoPosting' => true,
            ],
        ];
    }
}

Usage

Everything is working automatically right now. When you are creating new model - it's instantly adding a tweet., _(*11)

Todo

• [x] Limit tags count (recomended max 3 tags per tweet)
• [x] Configurable autoposting feature
• [ ] Configuring what to post: message, tags, url
• [ ] Handle twitter errors
• [ ] Manual posting of tweets if tweet isn't exist
• [ ] Tweets deletion
• [ ] Support Twitter cards