friendica-addons/twitter/README

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____ Twitter Plugin ____
By Tobias Diekershoff
tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! This addon is currently under development. If you have any problem !!
!! with it, please contact the Author. !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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With this addon to Friendica you can give your user the possibility to post
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their *public* messages to Twitter. The messages will be strapped their rich
context and shortened to 140 characters length if necessary. If shortening of
the message was performed a link will be added to the Tweet pointing to the
original message on your server.
There is a similar addon for forwarding public messages to
"StatusNet":http://status.net [[StatusNet Plugin]].
Online version of this document: http://ur1.ca/35mml
___ Requirements ___
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To use this plugin you have to register your Friendica instance as an
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_client application_ for Twitter with _read and write_ access, we do not intend
to use Twitter for login. The registration can be done at twitter.com/apps
and you need to have a Twitter account to do so.
After you registered the application you get an OAuth consumer key / secret
pair that identifies your app, you will need them for configuration.
The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the
message was longer than 140 characters requires it, that you have *PHP5+* and
*curl* on your server.
___ Where to find ___
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In the Friendica git repository /addon/twitter/, this directory contains
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all required PHP files (including the Twitter OAuth library [1] by Abraham
Williams, MIT licensed and the Slinky library [2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license),
a CSS file for styling of the user configuration and an image to _Sign in with
Twitter_.
[1] https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
[2] http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky/
___ Configuration ___
__ Global Configuration __
To activate this addon add @twitter@ to the list of active addons in your
.htconfig.php file
$a->config['system']['addon'] = "twitter, ..."
Afterwards you need to add your OAuth consumer key / secret pair to it by
adding the following two lines
$a->config['twitter']['consumerkey'] = 'your consumer KEY here';
$a->config['twitter']['consumersecret'] = 'your consumer SECRET here';
When this is done your user can now configure their Twitter connection at
"Settings -> Plugin Settings" and enable the forwarding of their *public*
messages to Twitter.
__ User Configuration __
When the OAuth consumer informations are correctly placed into the
configuration file and a user visits the "Plugin Settings" page they can now
connect to Twitter. To do so one has to follow the _Sign in with Twitter_
button (the page will be opened in a new browser window/tab) and get a PIN from
Twitter. This PIN has to be entered on the settings page. After submitting the
PIN the plugin will get OAuth credentials identifying this user from the
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Friendica account.
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If this first step was successful the Twitter configuration will be changed
on the "Plugin Settings" page displaying two check boxes. One to enable/disable
the forwarding of *all public* postings to Twitter and one to clear the
personal configuration from the Twitter credentials.