Interfacing with Twitter

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Twitter is everywhere. We're quick to judge Twitter's failures, but one of the things that they've done right is the creation of a rich API. Interfacing with this powerful mechanism has its quirks, but PHP's native streams and JSON support handle the tough parts and let you focus on the actual implementation. In this abridged crash course, you'll learn the basics of interacting with the Twitter API in PHP, from (auto-)following to tweeting, and in the process, we'll create a beer-rating bot like @beerscore.

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Sean Coates has worked on the Web for over a decade. He has managed teams of developers, developed payment code that processed over $1M per day, and worked as the Editor-in-Chief of php|architect magazine.

He is a member of the PHP community, works on the PHP manual, maintains PEAR+PECL code, speaks on the topic of PHP, and contributes to open source projects.

Sean publishes thoughts on his blog at http://seancoates.com/ and posts less significant musings on Twitter as @coates.