Question

I’m trying to make a Twitter component for CakePHP so I can sign in with Twitter and eventually allow my users to post to Twitter as well, this is my component:

<?php

class TwitterHelperComponent extends Object {
    var $name = 'TwitterHelper';
    var $twitterObj;

    function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
        require_once(APP.'vendors/twitter/EpiCurl.php');
        require_once(APP.'vendors/twitter/EpiOAuth.php');
        require_once(APP.'vendors/twitter/EpiTwitter.php');

        $this->twitterObj = new EpiTwitter(TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET);
    } 

    function setOAuthToken($oauth_token) {
        $this->twitterObj->setToken($oauth_token);
        $token = $this->twitterObj->getAccessToken();
        $this->twitterObj->setToken($token->oauth_token, $token->oauth_token_secret);

        return $twitter;
    }
}
?>

And in my bootstrap.php file I placed the following:

define('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY', '*******');
define('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET', '********');

In my controller I set the twitterObj to the view:

function home(){
        $this->layout = 'home';
        $this->set('twitter', $this->TwitterHelper->twitterObj);
    }

And in my view I do the following:

<a class='twitter-button' href='<?php echo $twitter->getAuthenticateUrl(); ?>'></a>

But I just get an undefined variable warning in my view for twitterObj. I’m using this Twitter PHP lib:

Also, my whole interface just goes out of whack and it loses all the styles when I try to get the URL.

Answer 1

I would suggest just retrieving the URL in your controller, and passing that through the set. I’m not sure passing an object reference will work as you intend.