Question

I have twitter username and password. What I want is, when a client adds any new article from the admin side I want its url be auto twit. I dont want to bother client to login to twitter each time he adds an article. Is there any way to auto login using Abraham twitteroauth library. Thankyou

Answer 1

Twitter requires first to Authorize a client app, then you’ll able to auto-tweet on certain occasions (i.e. publishing new article). For a detailed depiction you may take a look at this Twitter module for Chyrp that I’ve created. It uses the Abraham’s Twitter oAuth library. There’s also a clear example inside the abraham’s library archive that may clear this up a bit.

On the other hand, the CMS/Blog you’re using for your client’s site, should provide hooks (callbacks) in order to know when a post is being created, in order to call the Tweet method accordingly.

Example from the linked Twitter module for Chyrp:

1) Authorize with Twitter:

static function admin_chweet_auth($admin) {
    if (!Visitor::current()->group->can("change_settings"))
        show_403(__("Access Denied"), __("You do not have sufficient privileges to change settings."));

    # If the oauth_token is old redirect
    if (isset($_REQUEST['oauth_token']) && $_SESSION['oauth_token'] !== $_REQUEST['oauth_token'])
    Flash::warning(__("Old token. Please refresh the page and try again."), "/admin/?action=chweet_settings");

    # New TwitteroAuth object with app key/secret and token key/secret from SESSION
    $tOAuth = new TwitterOAuth(C_KEY, C_SECRET, $_SESSION['oauth_token'], $_SESSION['oauth_token_secret']);
    $access_token = $tOAuth->getAccessToken($_REQUEST['oauth_verifier']);

    # Save access tokens locally for future tweeting.
    $config = Config::current();
    $config->set("chweet_oauth_token", $access_token["oauth_token"]);
    $config->set("chweet_oauth_secret", $access_token["oauth_token_secret"]);
    $config->set("chweet_user_id", $access_token["user_id"]);
    $config->set("chweet_username", $access_token["screen_name"]);

    unset($_SESSION['oauth_token']);
    unset($_SESSION['oauth_token_secret']);

    if (200 == $tOAuth->http_code)
        Flash::notice(__("Chweet was successfully Authorized to Twitter."), "/admin/?action=chweet_settings");
    else
        Flash::warning(__("Chweet couldn't be authorized."), "/admin/?action=chweet_settings");
}

2) add_post (trigger)

public function add_post($post) {
   fallback($chweet, (int) !empty($_POST['chweet']));
   SQL::current()->insert("post_attributes",
                    array("name" => "tweeted",
                          "value" => $chweet,
                          "post_id" => $post->id));

   if ($chweet and $post->status == "public")
       $this->tweet_post($post);
}

3) Tweet-it method (truncated).

public function tweet_post($post) {
    $tOAuth = new TwitterOAuth(C_KEY, C_SECRET, $config->chweet_oauth_token, $config->chweet_oauth_secret);
    $user = $tOAuth->get("account/verify_credentials");
    $response = $tOAuth->post("statuses/update", array("status" => $status));
    return $response;
}