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A Basic & Light Twitter Connector for Laravel 4.1

Please contribute!

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!

Installation

Using Composer composer.

You need to add the repo for the project first in your composer.json:

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

In the same require the package:

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

Then just run a composer update

	$ composer update	

You can add the alias in your app/config/app.php

		'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

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:

File: app/config/api.php

	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

	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