A PHP Twitter feed package based on the Jaxon library

This package can add a Twitter feed to any PHP application.

Features

• Can fetch home, user or mentions timelines.
• Can show many timelines on a single page.
• Cache fetched timelines to limit calls to the Twitter service.
• Trigger refresh on a regular basis (one minute interval).

Documentation

Install the jaxon library so it bootstraps from a config file and handles ajax requests. Here's the documentation.

Install this package with Composer. If a Jaxon plugin exists for your framework, you can also install it. It will automate the previous step.

Declare the package and the Twitter feeds in the app section of the Jaxon configuration file.

    'app' => [
        // Other config options
        // ...
        'packages' => [
            Lagdo\TwitterFeed\Package::class => [
                'timelines' => [
                    'home' => [
                        'type'       => 'home', // The type of timeline
                        'count'      => 10,     // The number of tweets to show
                        'auth'       => [
                            'consumer_key'        => '',
                            'consumer_secret'     => '',
                            'access_token'        => '',
                            'access_token_secret' => '',
                        ],
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],

Multiple timelines can be declared. They can use the same authentication options or not.

    'app' => [
        // Other config options
        // ...
        'packages' => [
            Lagdo\TwitterFeed\Package::class => [
                'auth' => [
                    'timeline_auth' => [
                        'consumer_key'        => '',
                        'consumer_secret'     => '',
                        'access_token'        => '',
                        'access_token_secret' => '',
                    ],
                ],
                'timelines' => [
                    'home_timeline' => [
                        'type'       => 'home',
                        'count'      => 10,
                        'auth'       => 'timeline_auth',
                    ],
                    'user_timeline' => [
                        'type'       => 'user',
                        'count'      => 10,
                        'auth'       => 'timeline_auth',
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],

Insert the CSS and javascript codes in the HTML pages of your application using calls to jaxon()->getCss() and jaxon()->getScript(true).

In the page that displays the Twitter feed, insert its HTML code with a call to jaxon()->package(\Lagdo\TwitterFeed\Package::class)->timeline($timeline)->getHtml(). The timeline must be specified before getting the HTML code.

Two cases are then possible.

• If the Twitter feed is displayed on a dedicated page, make a call to jaxon()->package(\Lagdo\TwitterFeed\Package::class)->ready() when loading the page.
• If the Twitter feed is loaded with an Ajax request in a page already displayed, execute the javascript code returned the call to jaxon()->package(\Lagdo\TwitterFeed\Package::class)->getReadyScript() when loading the page.

Notes

The styling of the timelines is defined in the CSS file under the dist directory.

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: github.com/lagdo/twitter-feed/issues
• Source Code: github.com/lagdo/twitter-feed

License

The project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license.