[twitter-dev] Confused by oAuth and wanting to do something simple

2010-12-12 Thread Jason Rennie
Hi everybody, Hopefully this question hasn't been asked a million times already and I was just searching for it badly, but here goes. I played around with the twitter API back in basic authentication days, and I was asked by a friend to put something together for him. In the old days it would

Re: [twitter-dev] Confused by oAuth and wanting to do something simple

2010-12-12 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
It's actually very simple. 1. Download Abraham's TwitterOAuth from https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth 2. Get API keys from http://dev.twitter.com/ 3. Open a new .php file, include and initialize TwitterOAuth: $connection = new TwitterOAuth('consumer key', 'consumer secret', 'user key',

Re: [twitter-dev] Confused by oAuth and wanting to do something simple

2010-12-12 Thread Adam Green
If you need a step by step tutorial on doing this with PHP, and want something that shows you exactly where to get the right OAuth keys and use them in the code, you can try this tutorial: http://140dev.com/twitter-api-programming-tutorials/hello-twitter-oauth-php/ The sample code uses Matt

Re: [twitter-dev] Confused by oAuth and wanting to do something simple

2010-12-12 Thread Pollie Barden
I don't know if you already ran across this but I too am a newbie to Twitter API. I was just using this to test twitter post from processing. It shows how to setup Twitter app to get 0Auth keys - you can use the wordprayr twitter account as the app.