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Feb 09

The Only Twitter API PHP Class You Will Ever Need

twitSo, I started writing a Twitter API Programming series last week… Here is part 1.  I have found that there is not much else to teach when it comes to interfacing with Twitter.  Basically, we just need to implement all of the Twitter functions.

I have taken it upon myself to create a fully functional Twitter API PHP class.  It has every Twitter function you will ever need (less the direct messages).  I have also fully documented it with comments directly from the Twitter API so that the functions are easy to understand.  Here is how you would use the class. The first parameter of every function is the return type. For Twitter it can be either xml, json, or rss for some functions.

	include("Twitter.class.php");
 
	$twitter = new Twitter();
	$twitter->username = "twitteruser";
	$twitter->password = "twitterpass";
	// Show public timeline
	echo $twitter->public_timeline();
	// Update your status
	echo $twitter->update('xml','This PHP class is flippin sweet!');
	// Start following a user
	echo $twitter->create('xml','brandontreb');

These are just 3 of the functions implemented in this class. The full function list includes:

  • public_timeline
  • friends_timeline
  • user_timeline
  • update
  • replies
  • friends
  • followers
  • show
  • create
  • destroy
  • exists

All of these functions are fully documented and simple to use. You can also check out Twitter’s API here (but you shouldn’t need to).

So, now you can fully integrate Twitter into any PHP application you create!

Download The PHP Twitter Class here Twitter.class.php

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