consider switching twitter lib

[lsmith77]

https://github.com/jwage/Twitter

cc @Kertz, @jwage

[olegstepura]

That lib seems to be using pecl extension for oauth (most of the times it won't be installed). This is not good.

kertz/twitteroauth uses it's own implementation, but that one is not written in the spirit of symfony.

There is also https://github.com/kohana/oauth which is as far as I know Oauth 2.0 client implementation but I did not try it.
And Zend has it: https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/tree/master/library/Zend/OAuth (not sure if this is for 2.0 protocol already)

[olegstepura]

Zend also has some Twitter Service API - why Zend is so much ignored by Symfony community?

[jwage]

The auth side of that library for sure needs some work. I wrote that one
weekend when PHP 5.3 was coming out to play with namespaces and the latest
version of PHP. I've never personally used it in any project. I think the
core API and organization is solid though. It just needs a little polishing
love.

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[olegstepura]

@jwage Did you take a look at Zend's implementation before you started your own?

[jwage]

@olegstepura I can't speak for everyone else but in my opinion the quality of the Zend Framework is generally lower than the Symfony standards. I also personally dislike Zend and the way they organize themselves within the "open source" community. And I am still bitter over PEAR. That is why I ignore Zend :)

[olegstepura]

@jwage Well, the quality of some components is good enough. And compared to all other implementations (mostly taking kertz/twitteroauth) OAuth may appear to be the best of all. Not saying it is. But it may be so.

[stof]

@olegstepura The issue is that the ZF2 code is pretty instable currently as they are refactoring components one by one (and for instance, part of the Zend\Service code was completely broken after the refactoring of the Http Client and fixed only at least a month later). And the ZF1 code is not an option as it forces to put the ZF code in the include path as only part of the codebase was relying on autoloading.

[jwage]

And at the time(2 years ago). I wanted to work on a Twitter library built from the ground up to play with PHP 5.3. It wasn't for use with anything so for my objective it wasn't about using another library or something that works. This was purely a coding practice project for me.

[olegstepura]

Ok, cool. Now it is now. Is Zend\Service suitable for using in FOSTwitterBundle now?
I agree that Zend is monolitic library in how it's distributed. That is why KnP labs have decoupled it into composnents. And that decouple makes even more sense after introducing composer. But knp's initiative is not updated frequently.

[olegstepura]

@stof Can you answer please? Is Zend\Service\Twitter suitable for using in FOSTwitterBundle now?

[stof]

dunno. I haven't looked at ZF2 recently and I don't use the bundle anyway

[lsmith77]

@olegstepura i think in general the criteria for any dependency is that it must be reasonably standalone but focused on its task. in the current context this means that if we are to go with Zend's Twitter lib, then it makes sense that it doesn't cover the Http communication, however it should be reasonably easy to implement a different Http lib if we or one of our users decides it makes sense.

the main stumbling block is of course that someone actually implements this. right now we are not totally happy with the current situation as we have to rely on a fork of the upstream lib and in general there seems to be room for improvement.

however we also do not have someone really working on this bundle, we have a hard enough time to keep it maintained as is.