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@@ -553,25 +553,53 @@ our kind of hacky home-grown DB-based queue solution. See the "queues" config section below for how to configure to use STOMP. As of this writing, the software has been tested with ActiveMQ ( -Twitter Friends Syncing ------------------------ +Twitter Bridge +-------------- + +* OAuth + +As of 0.8.1, OAuth is used to to access protected resources on Twitter +instead of HTTP Basic Auth. To use Twitter bridging you will need +to register your instance of Laconica as an application on Twitter +(http://twitter.com/apps), and update the following variables in your +config.php with the consumer key and secret Twitter generates for you: + + $config['twitter']['consumer_key'] = 'YOURKEY'; + $config['twitter']['consumer_secret'] = 'YOURSECRET'; + +When registering your application with Twitter set the type to "Browser" +and your Callback URL to: + + http://example.org/mublog/twitter/authorization + +The default access type should be, "Read & Write". + +* Importing statuses from Twitter + +To allow your users to import their friends' Twitter statuses, you will +need to enable the bidirectional Twitter bridge in config.php: + + $config['twitterbridge']['enabled'] = true; + +and run the TwitterStatusFetcher daemon (scripts/twitterstatusfetcher.php). +Additionally, you will want to set the integration source variable, +which will keep notices posted to Twitter via Laconica from looping +back. The integration source should be set to the name of your +application, exactly as you specified it on the settings page for your +Laconica application on Twitter, e.g.: -As of Laconica 0.6.3, users may set a flag in their settings ("Subscribe -to my Twitter friends here" under the Twitter tab) to have Laconica -attempt to locate and subscribe to "friends" (people they "follow") on -Twitter who also have accounts on your Laconica system, and who have -previously set up a link for automatically posting notices to Twitter. + $config['integration']['source'] = 'YourApp'; -Optionally, there is a script (./scripts/synctwitterfriends.php), meant -to be run periodically from a job scheduler (e.g.: cron under Unix), to -look for new additions to users' friends lists. Note that the friends -syncing only subscribes users to each other, it does not unsubscribe -users when they stop following each other on Twitter. +* Twitter Friends Syncing -Sample cron job: +Users may set a flag in their settings ("Subscribe to my Twitter friends +here" under the Twitter tab) to have Laconica attempt to locate and +subscribe to "friends" (people they "follow") on Twitter who also have +accounts on your Laconica system, and who have previously set up a link +for automatically posting notices to Twitter. -# Update Twitter friends subscriptions every half hour -0,30 * * * * /path/to/php /path/to/laconica/scripts/synctwitterfriends.php>&/dev/null +As of 0.8.0, this is no longer accomplished via a cron job. Instead you +must run the SyncTwitterFriends daemon (scripts/synctwitterfreinds.php). Built-in Facebook Application ----------------------------- |