Twitter API with PHP

In order to use a communicante with a website ( in this case twitter) , we need to call it's api
But there too many standars to communicate with api ( OAuth1, OAuth2...) , hopefully they provides api documentation .


In this tutoriel we are gonna use twitter api (1.1 ) as exemple to get ou last tweets , but first we have to create twitter application

Creating twitter application give us  some random strings `consumer_secret`, `consumer_key`, `access_token` and  `access_token_secret`


We will use these strings later in OAuth process.

Don't panic no need to knowing all OAuth process using  php , Moreover, there are many php libraries and packages to do this for us , there is a very popular one ( twitter-api-php )


first we create an empty folder for our project then require the package :

composer require j7mbo/twitter-api-php
copy and past random strings from your twitter application in to this array 

 variable : 

 
$settings = array(
    'oauth_access_token' => "YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    'oauth_access_token_secret' => "YOUR_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET",
    'consumer_key' => "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
    'consumer_secret' => "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
);
we need also to create a url  variable of api endpoint :

then we instante twitter variable with our application keys ,lastly we call the get status api ans save the status as json object ,

With twitter api we can do many things like post status , sign in with twitter ..., integrating social features may be a good thing to your application .







































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