Laravel Twitter
A Twitter bridge for Laravel.
Installation
Require this package, with Composer, in the root directory of your project.
$ composer require artisanry/twitter
Configuration
Laravel Twitter requires connection configuration. To get started, you'll need to publish all vendor assets:
$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Artisanry\Twitter\TwitterServiceProvider"
This will create a config/twitter.php
file in your app that you can modify to set your configuration. Also, make sure you check for changes to the original config file in this package between releases.
Default Connection Name
This option default
is where you may specify which of the connections below you wish to use as your default connection for all work. Of course, you may use many connections at once using the manager class. The default value for this setting is main
.
Twitter Connections
This option connections
is where each of the connections are setup for your application. Example configuration has been included, but you may add as many connections as you would like.
Usage
TwitterManager
This is the class of most interest. It is bound to the ioc container as twitter
and can be accessed using the Facades\Twitter
facade. This class implements the ManagerInterface by extending AbstractManager. The interface and abstract class are both part of Graham Campbell's Laravel Manager package, so you may want to go and checkout the docs for how to use the manager class over at that repository. Note that the connection class returned will always be an instance of Twitter\Twitter
.
Facades\Twitter
This facade will dynamically pass static method calls to the twitter
object in the ioc container which by default is the TwitterManager
class.
TwitterServiceProvider
This class contains no public methods of interest. This class should be added to the providers array in config/app.php
. This class will setup ioc bindings.
Examples
Here you can see an example of just how simple this package is to use. Out of the box, the default adapter is main
. After you enter your authentication details in the config file, it will just work:
// You can alias this in config/app.php.
use Artisanry\Twitter\Facades\Twitter;
Twitter::get("account/verify_credentials");
// We're done here - how easy was that, it just works!
The Twitter manager will behave like it is a Twitter\Twitter
. If you want to call specific connections, you can do that with the connection method:
use Artisanry\Twitter\Facades\Twitter;
// Writing this…
Twitter::connection('main')->get("account/verify_credentials");
// …is identical to writing this
Twitter::get("account/verify_credentials");
// and is also identical to writing this.
Twitter::connection()->get("account/verify_credentials");
// This is because the main connection is configured to be the default.
Twitter::getDefaultConnection(); // This will return main.
// We can change the default connection.
Twitter::setDefaultConnection('alternative'); // The default is now alternative.
If you prefer to use dependency injection over facades like me, then you can inject the manager:
use Artisanry\Twitter\TwitterManager;
class Foo
{
protected $twitter;
public function __construct(TwitterManager $twitter)
{
$this->twitter = $twitter;
}
public function bar()
{
$this->twitter->get("account/verify_credentials");
}
}
App::make('Foo')->bar();
Documentation
There are other classes in this package that are not documented here. This is because the package is a Laravel wrapper of the official Twitter package.
Testing
$ phpunit
Security
If you discover a security vulnerability within this package, please send an e-mail to [email protected]. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.
Credits
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.
License
Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 (MPL-2.0).