Book description
This groundbreaking book provides you with the skills and resources necessary to build web applications for Twitter. Perfect for new and casual programmers intrigued by the world of microblogging, Twitter API: Up and Running carefully explains how each part of Twitter's API works, with detailed examples that show you how to assemble those building blocks into practical and fun web applications. You'll also get a complete look at Twitter culture and learn how it has inspired programmers to build hundreds of tools and applications. With this book, you will:
- Explore every component of a Twitter application and learn how the API responds
- Get the PHP and MySQL code necessary to build your own applications, with explanations of how these ingredients work
- Learn from real-world Twitter applications created just for this book
- Discover the most interesting and useful Twitter programs--and get ideas for creating your own--with the book's Twitter application directory
Twitter offers a new way to connect with people on the Internet, and Twitter API: Up and Running takes you right to the heart of this technology.
"Twitter API: Up and Running is a friendly, accessible introduction to the Twitter API. Even beginning web developers can have a working Twitter project before they know it. Sit down with this for a weekend and you're on your way to Twitter API mastery."--Alex Payne, Twitter API Lead
"Twitter API: Up and Running is a very comprehensive and useful resource--any developer will feel the urge to code a Twitter-related application right after finishing the book!"--The Lollicode team, creators of Twitscoop
Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
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1. Hello Twitter
- What Are You Doing?
- History of Twitter
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Creative Uses of Twitter
- Twitter Utilitarianism
- Twitter for News
- Twitter for Science
- Twitter for God
- Twitter for Emergencies
- Twitter for Marketing
- Twitter for Social Change
- Twitter for Money
- Twitter for Games
- Twitter for Anthropomorphism
- Twitter for Help
- Twitter for Creativity
- Twitter for Education
- Twitter for Entertainment
- Twitter for Sports
- Twitter for Evil
- Twitter As a Shared Event
- Twitter for Everyone
- A Changing Culture
- 2. Twitter Applications
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3. Web Programming Basics
- XHTML
- CSS
- PHP
- MySQL
- A Place to Call /home
- Further Reading
- 4. Meet the Twitter API
- 5. Meet the Output
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6. Application Setup
- Establishing Your Twitter Account
- Creating Your Database
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Included Functions
- Creating Your Includes Directory
- Environment Functions
- API Configuration Functions
- Database Functions
- SQL Queries
- Data Parsing Functions
- Password Management Functions
- Data Validation Functions
- Data Sorting Functions
- Statistics Functions
- Log Management Functions
- Status Messages
- HTML Template Functions
- CSS
- 7. Sample Applications
- 8. Automated Tasks
- A. Twitter API Reference
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Twitter API: Up and Running
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2009
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596154615
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