Richard Knop's Zend Framework Blog » Twitter API http://blog.richardknop.com Zend Framework, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX, SEO, E-commerce and more Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Zend_Service_Twitter http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/05/zend_service_twitter/ http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/05/zend_service_twitter/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 20:43:43 +0000 Richard Knop http://blog.richardknop.com/?p=261 In the previous post (Working with Twitter API in PHP) I wrote about how to use cURL to communicate with the Twitter API. There is an easier way when you’re using Zend Framework though – Zend_Service_Twitter. Bellow is just a simple example usage.

In the controller:

  1. $twitter = new Zend_Service_Twitter('your_username', 'your_password');
  2. // return last 20 statuses from a user
  3. $this->view->xml = $twitter->status->userTimeline();

In the view (to print the last user’s status):

  1. <p><?php echo $this->escape($this->xml->status[0]->text); ?></p>

For other availale methods read the whole documentation. Also don’t forget to take a look at other APIs the Zend Framework can work with natively (including Akismet, Amazon, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Yahoo and others) here.

]]> http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/05/zend_service_twitter/feed/ 2 Working with Twitter API in PHP http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/05/working-with-twitter-api-in-php/ http://blog.richardknop.com/2009/05/working-with-twitter-api-in-php/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 21:37:55 +0000 Richard Knop http://blog.richardknop.com/?p=242 Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks around and many people want to integrate it (in different ways) on their website. Fortunately, the Twitter API is well documented and easy to use (it is based on the HTTP protocol and everything is done through GET or POST requests).

PHP’s cURL extension is an ideal tool for working with the twitter API. I will show you few examples of most common twitter related tasks.

Getting recent statuses from an authenticating user

URI: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.format

  1. $username = 'your_username';
  2. $password = 'your_password';
  3.  
  4. // initialize a cURL session
  5. $ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=' . $username);
  6. // wait 2 miliseconds for connection
  7. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
  8. // do output to curl_exec()
  9. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  10. // username and password
  11. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ':' . $password);
  12. // execute the cURL session and use its output to create a new SimpleXML object
  13. $xml = new SimpleXMLElement(curl_exec($ch));
  14. // close the session to free up system resources
  15. curl_close($ch);

The $xml object contains the last 20 statuses of the specified user. To print the last status:

  1. echo $xml->status[0]->text;

Or you can iterate through the object and print all statuses:

  1. foreach ($xml->status as $status) {
  2.     echo $status->text, '<br />', "\n";
  3. }

Posting a status

URI: http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format

  1. $username = 'your_username';
  2. $password = 'your_password';
  3. $status = 'your status (max 140 characters)';
  4.  
  5. // initialize a cURL session
  6. $ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml');
  7. // wait 2 miliseconds for connection
  8. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
  9. // do not output to curl_exec()
  10. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
  11. // do a regular HTTP POST
  12. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  13. // HTTP POST data
  14. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'status=' . $status);
  15. // username and password
  16. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ':' . $password);
  17. // execute the cURL session
  18. curl_exec($ch);
  19. // close the session to free up system resources
  20. curl_close($ch);

Deleting a status

URI: http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy/id.format

  1. $username = 'your_username';
  2. $password = 'your_password';
  3. $id = 'id of the status you want to delete';
  4.  
  5. // initialize a cURL session
  6. $ch = curl_init('http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy/' . $id . '.xml');
  7. // wait 2 miliseconds for connection
  8. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
  9. // do not output to curl_exec()
  10. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0);
  11. // do a regular HTTP POST
  12. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  13. // username and password
  14. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ':' . $password);
  15. // execute the cURL session
  16. curl_exec($ch);
  17. // close the session to free up system resources
  18. curl_close($ch);
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