____ Twitter Plugin ____
By Tobias Diekershoff
+ http://diekershoff.homeunix.net/friendika/profile/tobias
tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
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-With this addon to Friendika you can give your user the possibility to post
+With this addon to Friendica you can give your user the possibility to post
their *public* messages to Twitter. The messages will be strapped their rich
context and shortened to 140 characters length if necessary. If shortening of
the message was performed a link will be added to the Tweet pointing to the
___ Requirements ___
-To use this plugin you have to register your Friendika instance as an
-_client application_ for Twitter with _read and write_ access, we do not intend
-to use Twitter for login. The registration can be done at twitter.com/apps
-and you need to have a Twitter account to do so.
+To use this plugin you have to register an application for your friendica
+instance on Twitter with
+ * read and write access
+ * don't set a callback URL
+ * we do not intend to use Twitter for login
+The registration can be done at twitter.com/apps and you need a Twitter
+account for doing so.
After you registered the application you get an OAuth consumer key / secret
pair that identifies your app, you will need them for configuration.
___ Where to find ___
-In the Friendika git repository /addon/twitter/, this directory contains
+In the Friendica git repository /addon/twitter/, this directory contains
all required PHP files (including the Twitter OAuth library [1] by Abraham
Williams, MIT licensed and the Slinky library [2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license),
a CSS file for styling of the user configuration and an image to _Sign in with
__ Global Configuration __
+If you enabled an administrator account, please use the admin panel to configure
+the Twitter relay. If you for any reason prefer to use a configuration file instead
+of the admin panels, please refer to the Alternative Configuration below.
+
+Activate the plugin from the plugins section of your admin panel. When you have
+done so, add your consumer key and consumer secret in the settings section of the
+plugin page.
+
+When this is done your user can now configure their Twitter connection at
+"Settings -> Connector Settings" and enable the forwarding of their *public*
+messages to Twitter.
+
+__ Alternative Configuration __
+
To activate this addon add @twitter@ to the list of active addons in your
.htconfig.php file
- $a->config['system']['addon'] = "twitter, ..."
+
+$a->config['system']['addon'] = "twitter, ..."
+
Afterwards you need to add your OAuth consumer key / secret pair to it by
adding the following two lines
$a->config['twitter']['consumerkey'] = 'your consumer KEY here';
$a->config['twitter']['consumersecret'] = 'your consumer SECRET here';
-When this is done your user can now configure their Twitter connection at
-"Settings -> Plugin Settings" and enable the forwarding of their *public*
-messages to Twitter.
__ User Configuration __
button (the page will be opened in a new browser window/tab) and get a PIN from
Twitter. This PIN has to be entered on the settings page. After submitting the
PIN the plugin will get OAuth credentials identifying this user from the
-Friendika account.
+Friendica account.
If this first step was successful the Twitter configuration will be changed
on the "Plugin Settings" page displaying two check boxes. One to enable/disable
the forwarding of *all public* postings to Twitter and one to clear the
personal configuration from the Twitter credentials.
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