mikenz / twitter-text-php

Twitter text processing library (auto linking and extraction of usernames, lists and hashtags). Based on the Ruby and Java implementations by Matt Sanford. NO LONGER BEING ACTIVELY MAINTAINED BY ME. I RECOMMEND YOU USE ONE OF THE ACTIVE FORKS

Twitter Text (PHP Edition)

A library of PHP classes that provide auto-linking and extraction of usernames, lists, hashtags and URLs from tweets. Originally created from twitter-text-rb and twitter-text-java projects by Matt Sanford and ported to PHP by Mike Cochrane, this library has been improved and made more complete by Nick Pope.

Features

Autolink

• Add links to all matching Twitter usernames (no account verification).
• Add links to all user lists (of the form @username/list-name).
• Add links to all valid hashtags.
• Add links to all URLs.
• Support for international character sets.

Extractor

• Extract mentioned Twitter usernames (from anywhere in the tweet).
• Extract replied to Twitter usernames (from start of the tweet).
• Extract all user lists (of the form @username/list-name).
• Extract all valid hashtags.
• Extract all URLs.
• Support for international character sets.

Hit Highlighter

• Highlight text specifed by a range by surrounding with a tag.
• Support for highlighting when tweet has already been autolinked.
• Support for international character sets.

Examples

For examples, please see tests/example.php which you can view in a browser or run from the command line.

Conformance

You'll need the test data which is in YAML format from the following repository:

http://github.com/mzsanford/twitter-text-conformance

It has already been added as a git submodule so you should just need to run:

git submodule init
git submodule update

As PHP has no native support for YAML you'll need to checkout spyc from svn into tests/spyc:

svn checkout http://spyc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ tests/spyc

There are a couple of options for testing conformance:

1. Run phpunit in from the root folder of the project.
2. Run tests/runtests.php from the command line.
3. Make tests/runtests.php accessible on a web server and view it in your browser.

Thanks & Contributions

The bulk of this library is from the heroic efforts of:

• Matt Sanford (https://github.com/mzsanford): For the orignal Ruby and Java implementions.
• Mike Cochrane (https://github.com/mikenz): For the initial PHP code.
• Nick Pope (https://github.com/ngnpope): For the bulk of the maintenance work to date.

twitter-text-php's Issues

Add composer integration

Would be REALLY useful! 😉