Zend Framework and the Twitter API
I wanted my new job website to post a tweet to twitter every time we approved a posting.
Zend_Service_Twitter looks like it will be fairly comprehensive, but it’s not in the core yet and is probably a little overkill for my simple use case.
I then had a look at Zend_Rest_Client, which seemed to confuse me. I couldn’t actually get it to add the parameters I wanted to the call, I guess it’s better for interacting with Zend_Rest_Server or fully restful APIs.
To be fair, the manual actually states:
[Warning] Strictness of Zend_Rest_Client
Any REST service that is strict about the arguments it receives will likely fail using Zend_Rest_Client, because of the behavior described above. This is not a common practice and should not cause problems.
So here’s some simple code using Zend_Http_Client.
< ?php
require_once 'Zend/Http/Client.php';
$http = new Zend_Http_Client('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', array(
'maxredirects' => 0,
'timeout' => 10,
));
$http->setAuth(
'twitter_username',
'twitter_password',
Zend_Http_Client::AUTH_BASIC
);
$http->setMethod(Zend_Http_Client::POST);
$http->setParameterPost('status', 'Your status message');
$http->request();
?>
Tags: PHP, twitter, zend framework
October 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Jon Whitcraft has taken the version currently in the incubator and greatly refactored it; you can find it on github at http://github.com/sidhighwind/phly_twitter/tree/master
I’d recommend giving it a spin. :)
October 15th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Java developers can use this component:
http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/twittertag.htm
October 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm
http://pear.php.net/Services_Twitter is quite complete and easy to use.
statuses->update(’New Message’);
?>
Done. :)
October 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pm
looking forward for more information about this. thanks for sharing. Eugene
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 am
Agh! Never parallel the terms Zend_Rest_Server and “fully restful api’s” ;)
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 am
No curl or libs really needed, smth like this should work:
$context = stream_context_create(array(’http’ => array(
‘method’ => ‘POST’,
‘header’ =>
“Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n” .
‘Authorization: Basic ‘ . base64_encode(’username:password’),
‘content’ => http_build_query(array(’status’ => ‘your message’)),
)));
var_dump(file_get_contents(’http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml’, false, $context));
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 am
@Matthew: Cheers, will check it out.
@David: Cheers, will check it out. I need to start actually going to the pear website to check for libraries, I depend on google finding things for me too much.
@Luke: I hear ya buddy!
@NoDeps: Doesn’t look as nice though does it ;)
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:49 am
I have updated the code tonight with more unit tests. I’m still working on it but we are shoting to have it in the incubator by Monday.
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