Title: Twitter

Date: February 1, 2009 01:21:00 AM +00:00 or Sun, 01 February 2009 01:21:00 +00:00

Summary: 

The Xaraya Twitter Module provides a wrapper for Twitters API functions. It is currently responsible for accomplishing these main tasks:

1. Provide a means to send status updates to your Twitter account from your site.
2. Optionally display the Twitter public timeline.
3. Optionally display a specific user timeline associated with your site.
4. Optionally allow users to update their Twitter status from your site.
5. Optionally display users Twitter account info in their profile.

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How to use it?

• Modify Config

  1. Module
     - Configure the modules shorturl and alias options
     - Configure the tabs to display, and default tab to show for user main function
  2. Site
     - Configure the site account and owner
  3. Users
     - Configure user profile options

Included Blocks

• timeline -- Allows you to display public or a user timeline within a block

Included Hooks

• Create -- Allows a status update to be sent from the site account when new items are created. The hook allows you to send an update for content created by all users, or just items created by the site account owner. Status will include a link to the new item. You can optionally specify a field to include an excerpt from.

In these cases, the Twitter module provides the hook functionality.

Included Dynamic Data Properties

• Twitter provides a twitterscreenname property
  - Add a twitterscreenname property to the Roles Users dynamicdata object. Once added your users will be able to enter an account name and password. Their Twitter profile will display in their user account profile, and will also be listed in the Users tab (if you enable it in Module Modify Config).

TODO List

• Documentation
• Finish the xml parsing function for case simplexml not available
• Explore ways to provide a 'Twitter this' function for logged in users to tweet about site content
• Implement relationships, allowing friends and followers to interact with each other on site
• TODO //
• ... add your own suggestions for this list at bugs.xaraya.com

Bug Reporting

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Notes: 

More fields may be available via dynamicdata ..

Last modified on Mar 16, 2009 01:03:00 AM by Crisp

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