Php Zend framework connection with Twitter (Oauth)

After a lot of puzzling with a connection to twitter to put a post on my wall, I thought of writing it down so that I never have to puzzle with this again!

After making a Twitter account and an application on http://twitter.com/apps/.

You need 2 actions in you Controller. The first one that you call asks for allowing the connection:

The second action is the callback, that reads the token that you get when you allow the twitter access. This token we will save in a database for further usage.

In my example I have an IndexController with 2 actions named: indexAction() and callbackAction().
The url of the page is “my_url.com” and my callback url is “my_url.com/index/callback”.
You need to specify this in your twitter app settings. You go to your app that you can find on http://twitter.com/apps/ and change the settings with your url and your callback url.

Now we can start in our Zend Framework.

First we make our indexAction():
What you need is your consumerKey and your consumerSecret that you find in your  twitter application details

public function indexAction()

{

         session_start();

         $config = array(

              'callbackUrl' => 'http://my_url.com/index/callback',

               'siteUrl' => 'http://api.twitter.com/oauth',

               'consumerKey' => 'CONSUMER_KEY',

               'consumerSecret' => 'CONSUMER_SECRET'

        );

        $consumer = new Zend_Oauth_Consumer($config);

        $token = $consumer->getRequestToken();

        $_SESSION['BLUB'] = serialize($token);

        $consumer->redirect();

}

What will happen is that you will be redirected to the allow twitter connection page and then he will go to your second action the callbackAction.

callbackAction():

public function doneAction(){

     session_start();

     $config = array(

              'callbackUrl' => 'http://my_url.com/index/callback',

               'siteUrl' => 'http://api.twitter.com/oauth',

               'consumerKey' => 'CONSUMER_KEY',

               'consumerSecret' => 'CONSUMER_SECRET'

        );

        $consumer = new Zend_Oauth_Consumer($config);

        if (!empty($_GET) && isset($_SESSION['BLUB'])) {
           $token = $consumer->getAccessToken($_GET,unserialize($_SESSION['BLUB']));

           $_SESSION['TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN'] = serialize($token);

           //SAVE TOKEN TO DB
          $table = new Default_Model_DbTable_Twitter();  //TABLE CLASS
          $data = array(

            'token'      => $_SESSION['TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN']

         );

        $where = $table->getAdapter()->quoteInto('id = ?', 1);

        $table->update($data, $where);

        // Now that we have an Access Token, we can discard the Request Token

        $_SESSION['BLUB'] = null;

      }

} 

Now we have the token and put for examples tweets on your twitter by the following code:

//Get token from DB

$twitterMap = new Default_Model_TwitterMapper();

$token = unserialize($twitterMap->getToken()); 

$twitter = new Zend_Service_Twitter(array(

'username' => 'MY_TWITTER_ACOUNT',

'accessToken' => $token

));

// verify user's credentials with Twitter

$response   = $twitter->status->update('Hello World');

And that’s is it to make a connection with your twitter using the Zend Framework by using the twitter service and the Oauth.