Comments on: Writing Your First Twitter Application with OAuth

By: snipe

snipe — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:56:11 +0000

Pete – that's been posted in the comments several times now. If time is precious, you might have checked there first

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:48:15 +0000

helpful article, thanks, but

you gotta fix this line:
$content = $to->OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml', array(), 'GET');
should be:
$content = $to->OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml', GET, array());

time is precious
thanks

By: neocambell

neocambell — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:45:48 +0000

Wonderful. This is the best artcile I found about oAuth for twitter. Thanks a lot.

By: snipe

snipe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:09:34 +0000

Are you using the new OAuth library or the old one? This code hasn't ben updated for Abraham's most recent library release.

By: peterson

peterson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:14:17 +0000

Figured out the logout issue – you have to change your code in index.php (line 29 in your snippet) to:

$request_link = $to->getAuthorizeURL($tok, !isset($_SESSION['oauth_access_token']));

The second parameter is what determines if the user has logged out or still has the access token in the session – otherwise clearing the session does nothing since the second parameter in getAuthorize URL is TRUE by default. This might be helpful for others.

By: peterson

peterson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:05:01 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, this is really helping me get things started.

one problem though, the Logout link is not working. when I logout, then click login again it bypasses the login screen and shows callback.php again with my previous login info. any ideas? Is session_destroy() and session_unset() all that is required to logout?

By: lucarocchi

lucarocchi — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:46:37 +0000

thx now it is even more clear … i just realize that similar message was posted more than once before

By: snipe

snipe — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:30:07 +0000

This tutorial is based on an earlier version of the library.

By: lucarocchi

lucarocchi — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:28:18 +0000

it seems that params order in your code snippet is swapped

$to->OAuthRequest('https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', array('status' => 'Test OAuth update. #testoauth'), 'POST')

while twitteroauth.php states
function oAuthRequest($url, $method, $parameters) {

Thx for the great tutorial

By: adoption curve dot net » Blog Archive » links for 2010-01-27

adoption curve dot net » Blog Archive » links for 2010-01-27 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:05:34 +0000

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