Simple Twitter feed for Silverstripe

This module puts a simple twitter feed into your page. Nothing fancy!

Credits and Authors

• Damian Mooyman - https://github.com/tractorcow/silverstripe-twitter

Requirements

• SilverStripe 3.1 or above
• PHP 5.3

Installation Instructions

• Extract all files into the 'twitter' folder under your Silverstripe root, or install using composer

composer require "tractorcow/silverstripe-twitter" "3.1.*@dev"

• Run a dev/build to generate the required fields
• Signup for a twitter app at https://dev.twitter.com/apps and create an access token. Go to the "Settings" tab in the CMS and load both the Consumer keys and the access token keys into the 'Twitter App' tab.
• Put an <% include TwitterWidget %> into your template, or you can use the following to create a list of items.

<% if LatestTweets %>
	<ul class="Tweets">
		<% loop LatestTweets %>
			<li class="Tweet">
				<label>
					<a href="http://www.twitter.com/{$User}" target="_blank" class="User">@$User</a>
					$DateObject.format('d F Y')
				</label>
				<p>$Content</p>
			</li>
		<% end_loop %>
	</ul>
<% end_if %>

Templating

Tweets can be retrieved with one of the following controller functions (inside a loop or control)

• $LatestTweets('10') - Returns up to the specified number of tweets (defaults to 10 if no count specified)
• $LatestTweet - Returns the latest tweet

Each tweet object has the following properties:

• ID - Twitter ID of the tweet
• Date - Creation date (string value)
• TimeAgo - Tweet age (string value)
• DateObject - SS_DateTime instance containing Date value
• User - Username of poster
• Name - Real name of poster
• Content - Tweet HTML
• Link - Link to tweet
• ProfileLink - Link to author profile
• ReplyLink - Link to reply to this tweet
• RetweetLink - Linke to retweet this tweet
• FavouriteLink - Link to add this tweet to favourites

Need more help?

Message or email me at [email protected] or, well, read the code!

License

Copyright (c) 2013, Damian Mooyman All rights reserved.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• The name of Damian Mooyman may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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