PHP Twitter class / News: Recent posts

As Twitter will only support OAuth authentication in the future, several users of this class will be facing problems as it does not support OAuth yet. I'm working on OAuth integration and will release the updated class asap, but no release date yet.

The current issue (01/2010) of the german "PHP Journal" contains an article about the common usage of this class.

The article named "Twittern via PHP" is one page in length and contains very useful examples on how to setup the class for using it in your own applications and websites.

I'd like to seize the opportunity to thank the author Max Bold for the good promotion.

See http://www.phpjournal.eu/ or http://www.maxbold.de/ for any further information...

The new version 1.7.1 of the Twitter class has just been released. An update to this version is highly recommended for all users as this is a bugfix release. A lot of problems have been solved that partially were contained in all previous versions of this class. Please note the deprecation of the dedicated importer methods getUserTimelineContents(), getFriendsTimelineContents(), getUserTimelineTagContents(), getFriendsTimelineTagContents() and getTimelineTagContents() which will be removed in the forthcoming release 1.8. Please make sure that you do not use these methods any longer! I've met this decision on behalf of popular demand and the fact that the class should stick to basic Twitter functionalities, processing of returned data is now completely up to you again. I'm currently working on the next release 1.8 which will contain the handling of direct messages. Integration of the Twitter search API is now on the roadmap for v1.9. Stay tuned...

The new release 1.7 is out now. It contains various code improvements, a bugfix for the method parseTimeline(), an added method getMentions() to retrieve your mentions-timeline and new optional count-parameters for most of the timeline methods that will allow you to modify the amount of returned timeline items.

The implementation of direct message functionalities and integration of the Twitter search API has been postponed to the next release.

According to many mails that I have received during the last days, many of you are curious about the Twitter class roadmap. Currently I'm working on the forthcoming release 1.7 which will include several new features. The most outstanding feature will be the possibility to retrieve the current user's mention timeline. In addition to that, all timeline functions will get an optional parameter to determine how many items will be fetched from Twitter. I will also take the chance to optimize some code within the different methods to increase performance and maintain a certain coding standard. Feel free to contact me for any suggestions!

The brand new version 1.6 of the Twitter class has just been released. The class now features two new methods to follow and unfollow other Twitter users. Enjoy!

The new version 1.5 of the phptwitterclass has just been released. Long story short - no new features, some code improvements have been made. See the changelog for more details...

As noted earlier today, the new version of this class has just been released. An upgrade is highly recommended for all users as the previous versions contained a major bug within the method that handles cURL-requests.

A major bug within the method curlQuery() has been discovered today. The problem will be solved in version 1.4 which is about to be released. I recommend upgrading to the new version as soon as it is available, the bug affects all previous releases.

The new version of the Twitter class has just been revealed. New importer methods are now available. Please see the documentation or example.php for further details...

The current version 1.2 of the Twitter class now features an extensive documentation in HTML format. This should make Twitter integration in PHP as easy as 1-2-3!

My Twitter class now features two new methods for fetching only the tweetcontents of your timelines: getUserTimelineContents() and getFriendsTimelineContents(). This will maybe help you if you want to import only the contentdata of your tweets into PHP for further processing.

From now on it will be extremely easy to use PHP and Twitter in combination: I'm proud to announce the publication of my new Twitter-class.

This is a comprehensive sample implementation of Twitter services in the common langauge PHP. The result is a well standardized PHP class that can be downloaded here on Sourceforge. It should keep your head free for more important work, you will be able to use the most important Twitter functionalities in your own PHP application by including just one file and adding some lines of code.