Get Tweets in PHP

This plugin will add the PHP class GetTweetsInPhp. You can use this class as described below for retrieving latest tweets from a Twitter account, then handle the tweets as you want in your PHP code.

Note: you should create a Twitter app before using this plugin. com.

Features

• Get latest N tweets from a Twitter account.

• Get the tweet’s text formatted as HTML (with links for each entities).

• Cache support.

• Made for developers.

• Really light and simple.

• Works with the v1.1 Twitter API.

• Trivial install/uninstall (only add/remove the plugin’s files).

• No any data will be permanently stored in your database (only transient data

if the cache is enabled).

• Proudly coded by Netgloo.

Example usage

Get and show latest tweets from @netglooweb:

// Set configurations $configs = [ // Set here tokens from your Twitter's app 'consumer_key' => 'CONSUMER_KEY', 'consumer_secret' => 'CONSUMER_SECRET',

// The Twitter account name 'screen_name' => 'netglooweb',

// The number of tweets 'count' => 5, ];

// Get latest tweets using the function get_tweets $tweets = \Netgloo\GetTweetsInPhp::get_tweets($configs);

//...

// For each tweet show the HTML text and the attached image foreach ($tweets as $tweet) {

echo "<p>"; echo $tweet->n_html_text;

if ($tweet->n_has_media_photo) { echo "<img src='{$tweet->n_media_photo_url}' width='100%' />"; }

echo "</p>";

}

//...

That’s all! Have fun!

Configurations

The get_tweets() function takes an array of configurations:

$configs = [

// --- Required ---

',

',

// --- Optional ---

// The number of tweets 'count' => 20,

// Include also the retweets 'include_rts' => true,

" if the tweet // is a retweet 'show_retweeted_by' => true,

// Enable the cache // It is recommended to activate the cache, when you put live // your website, in order to avoid to reach the Twitter's api rate // limit of 300 requests / 15-min. 'cache_enabled' => false,

// Cache expiration (in seconds) // Increase the value to optimize the website's speed, decrease // the value if you want a more real-time behaviour (but not // less than 4 seconds to avoid to reach the rate limit). 'cache_expiration' => 60,

// Templates

// Retweeted by text template 'retweeted_by_template' => '<em> Retweeted by {{user_name}}</em>',

// Hash tag link template 'hashtag_link_template' => '<a href="{{hashtag_link}}" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'. '#{{hashtag_text}}</a>',

// Url link template 'url_link_template' => '<a href="{{url_link}}" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" '. 'title="{{url_title}}">{{url_text}}</a>',

// User mention link template 'user_mention_link_template' => '<a href="{{user_mention_link}}" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" '. 'title="{{user_mention_title}}">@{{user_mention_text}}</a>',

// Media link template 'media_link_template' => '<a href="{{media_link}}" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" '. 'title="{{media_title}}">{{media_text}}</a>'

];

$tweets = \Netgloo\GetTweetsInPhp::get_tweets($configs);

Returned values

The get_tweets() function will return an Array of tweets. On each tweet object are available these properties:

• n_html_text (String) The tweet text formatted as HTML, with links on each entities.

• n_is_retweeted (Boolean) True if the curret tweet is a retweet.

• n_has_media_photo (Boolean) True if the current tweet has an attached photo.

• n_media_photo_url (String) The url of the tweet’s attached photo.

• n_media_photo_urls (Array) If the tweet has more than one attached photos this properties contains all the urls.

Other available properties are those returned from the user_timeline Twitter’s API.

These are some useful ones:

• created_at

• retweet_count

• user->name

• user->screen_name

• user->profile_image_url

If the properties n_is_retweeted is true the current tweet is a “re-tweet” and the retweeted_status object is available:

• retweeted_status->user->name

• retweeted_status->user->screen_name

• retweeted_status->retweet_count

Example

This code use some of the above properties:

//...

$tweets = \Netgloo\GetTweetsInPhp::get_tweets($configs);

foreach ($tweets as $tweet) { echo $tweet->created_at. "<br/>"; echo $tweet->n_html_text. "<br/>"; if ($tweet->n_has_media_photo) { echo $tweet->n_media_photo_url.

"<br/>"; } }

//...

Limitations

Since we rely on the Twitter’s user_timeline API, you should read the following docs for taking in account any API’s limitation:

• https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline

• https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/timelines

Contributing

For patches, bug reports, suggestions, requests for features there is a Git repository on GitHub here:

com/netgloo/get-tweets-in-php