Comments on: Integrating With Twitter API In CodeIgniter

By: Tahsin Hasan

Tahsin Hasan — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:21:59 +0000

hello, thanks for the post, you can find a twitter codeigniter library here on http://newdailyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/download-tweetsigniter.html. Thanks.

By: Sbudah

Sbudah — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:48:39 +0000

Pursuant to David’s method – I simply expanded the main twitter class as follows:
- Capitalize the class name to adhere to CI standards
and added the following function after the variables declarations:
/*
* Authethicate the user – must be run after loading the library
* @param array $settings contains user details (username, password and user_agent).
*/
function authenticate($settings){
$this->username = $settings['un'];
$this->password = $settings['pw'];
$this->user_agent = $settings['ua'];
return;
}

Usage guide on your controller:
$settings = array(‘un’=>’username’,
‘pw’=>’password’,
‘ua’=>’user_agent’);
$this->load->library(‘twitter’);
$this->twitter->authenticate($settings);

By: Amit Kumar Singh

Amit Kumar Singh — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:20:21 +0000

@nishantha You need to enable curl extension in php.ini

By: nishantha

nishantha — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:22:45 +0000

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\wamp\www\CI1\system\application\libraries\twitter.php on line 713

By: pete

pete — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:11:02 +0000

I’m a newbie in php,but I like your tutorial.How do you integrate twitpic api as a buddypress plugin which is a social wordpress MU CMS?
http://www.buddypress.org

By: david

david — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:05:01 +0000

The main thing I was trying to express is the fact that adding values to the class itself makes the class inflexible.

If you don’t want to change the class you can extend the class with your own using a prefix. This loads the parent class and the extended class into an object with the parent class name.

A quick an dirty extended class

class MY_Twitter extends Twitter
{
function MY_Twitter($settings)
{
parent::twitter();
$this->username = $settings['username'];
$this->password = $settings['password'];
$this->useragent = $settings['useragent'];
}
}

By: Amit Kumar Singh

Amit Kumar Singh — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:07:01 +0000

thanks for suggestion david, i did not do any of those things as i did not wanted to change the original class file and my need was very well served.

By: david

david — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:01:17 +0000

Instead of hardcoding the variables in the class add an initialize method that sets the variables for you and then you can use a config file with the same name to load the default values.
But then you also have to possibility to create other twitter objects.

$this->load->library(‘Twitter’); // loads class and adds config values
$other_nest = new Twitter($other_config);