CodeIgniter-Twitter Consumer

Twitter API client that works with Application-only authentication for compatibility with the 1.1 API. Can expose tweets as RSS or JSON and restore shortened URLS.

As of the 1.1 version of the Twitter REST API, all requests require OAuth. On 11-Mar-2013, Twitter released Application-only authentication to allow requests on behalf of an APPLICATION, as opposed to on behalf of a specific USER.

This library implements the new authentication for public resources like user timelines.

See https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth for more info on the API.

See https://dev.twitter.com/apps to register an application - you'll need a consumer key and consumer secret.

Features

1. Wraps API requests in OAuth.
2. Optionally restore auto-shortened urls.
3. Expose tweets as RSS.

Requirements

1. PHP 5
2. CodeIgniter 2.0+
3. CodeIgniter Curl library: http://getsparks.org/packages/curl/show

Example

// Load the library.
$this->load->library('twitter_consumer');

// Which API resource do we want to fetch?
$resource = '/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=joshmoody';

// Make the call, passing TRUE as 2nd param to restore shortened URLS.
$response = $this->twitter_consumer->request($resource, TRUE);

// Send a header and output response.
header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
print $response;
exit;

Example 2 (If RSS is your thing)

// Load the library.
$this->load->library('twitter_consumer');

// Which API resource do we want to fetch?
$resource = '/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=joshmoody';

// Make the call, passing TRUE as 2nd param to restore shortened URLS.
$response = $this->twitter_consumer->request($resource, TRUE);

// Convert the json response to RSS	
$rss = $this->twitter_consumer->to_rss($response);
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
print $rss;
exit;

Installation

1. Copy config/twitter.php to your config directory.
2. Update config/twitter.php with your consumer key/secret.
3. Copy libraries/twitter_consumer to your libraries directory.
4. Download/Install the Curl library from https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-curl