PHP library for Twitter API v1.1

This project is deprecated and no more maintained.

Please use the new improved version of this project named as “Fetchwitter” and available at https://github.com/jabranr/fetchwitter

How to use / How it works

Step 1: Create an application

First of you will need to register/login at https://dev.twitter.com/apps and create a new application. Fill out the required fields and it will generate the required credentials for you. The only credentials you need are consumer key and consumer secret.

Step 2: Exchange credentials for access token

Now you need to make a POST request to API’s oAuth endpoint to exchange above-mentioned credentials for an access token. The request made at this stage requires Authorization headers. This will result in a response with app level bearer access token. You might want to save/cache the acquired access token instead of making a request each time.

Step 3: Make request to get the required feed

Now that you have the access token, you can make requests to Twitter API endpoint and receive data in response. The request made at this stage also requires inclusion of Authorization headers.

Now since all these results are returned in plain text and so are the links, hashtags and mentions in the tweets. This issue can easily be solved by using regex match and replace methods, that is available in this example as text2tweet() function.

License

Project is available under MIT License