Twitter Ionize CMS Module

Version : 0.2

october 2013

About Twitter Module

Twitter Ionize CMS Module is a module that allows for a designer to include tweets and style them as desired, using tags within Ionize and by simply activating a module and the twitter user data needed. Tags for displaying tweets are available. Currently tweets are cached by a time-frame interval defined in module configuration.

Author

Boris Aramis Aguilar R.

Installation

Copy "Twitter" directory inside Ionize's CMS modules directory.
Go to admin panel inside Ionize and enable the module (modules->administration->Twitter module->Install)
Click on "Twitter module"
Add a twitter user (you need to have: account's access token, access token secret, consumer key and consumer secret) you can obtain all the needed data from dev.twitter.com/apps and creating a new app and consulting your Access token and Access token secret

Tags available for usage in views && example usage

<ion:twitter:tweets max="4">
<a href="http://twitter.com/<ion:tweet field="screen_name" />">@<ion:tweet field="screen_name" /></a>
<ion:tweet field="text" />
</ion:twitter:tweets>

ion:twitter:tweets accepts the optional parameter max, it tells how much tweets to load, any number above 20 will just load the last 20 tweets cached.
ion:twitter:tweets:tweet has the "field" parameter; possible values are:
- screen_name: displays the twitter account name.
- text: displays the tweet's content.
- userurl: if the user has a url in his profile this parameter shows it up.
- id_tweet: displays twitter's internal id.

Updated feature on dates

Now the tweet text create links from hashtags, mentions, urls. Added new field that parse the tweet time to get Twitter style "time ago".

<ion:tweet field="created_at" />

Credits

Twitter module for Ionize CMS written by Boris Aramis Aguilar R..
The twitter interal OAuth library being used is: PHP TwitterOAuth by Abraham Williams.

borisaguilar / Twitter