Brown PHP

Well I spent a few hours condensing the PHP code that I developed for BrownPHP into a Twitter class that can be downloaded. You can get it PHP class in my code repository.

Take a look at the class and let me know if there are any methods that you would like to have added to the class. Currently there are two main methods.

1. sendTweet – This method is a popular one that is seems like everyone want to use. It’s a simple method that can be called to tweet something to your Twitter account. This method is very simple and shouldn’t be complicated at all to implement into your own code at all.
   
2. getTagCloud – This is another easily implemented method. By providing any Twitter username, this method will generate a Twitter Tag Cloud. If you have never used a Twitter Tag Cloud, it basically can provide a bird’s eye view of the topics that a Twitter user tweets out more regularly.
   

I won’t get into how integrating your own sites and projects into Twitter can make them more social and viral inducing, but I will say that if you aren’t using Twitter right now you are losing out on a great way to help your brand.

There are so many insightful people on Twitter (granted a lot of trolls too unfortunately) and a lot of great ideas that can culminate by socializing with this community. I myself am going through a re-branding phase. Instead of using my dlbrown06 Twitter account, I will be using the BrownPHP Twitter account to be tweeting about BrownPHP and other PHP interests.

If you are involved in the PHP community, wanting to learn PHP, or are a PHP guru yourself follow BrownPHP. I’ll be sure to follow you as well to continue discussing PHP projects and development.

I’m going to start doing some reorganizing of the site as you may have already noticed via the new site design. One thing that I would like to do at first is create a code repository.

As I’m building websites I’ve started to build a library of classes. Most of the classes I normally create and would like to share involve integration with Twitter, eBay, Amazon and others. The goal really is to make it easier on PHP coders starting out to implement some of these wonderful services into project of their very own without having to review API documentation for hours. Most of which is poorly written…

So I’ll obviously be adding a Twitter Class into the repository first. Then as time goes on, others will follow. Give me some time to go through the classes and document them properly so that developers don’t need to decipher my code. J

You can get to the BrownPHP Code Repository here or simply click the “Code” link in the top banner of the site. Let me know if there are any classes in particular that you would like me to add to the repository as priority. Most likely I already have a class for whatever you are looking for, just let me know.

If you are as involved and excited about PHP development as I am and want to help new PHP developers out there, please let them know about BrownPHP.com. I would be more than happy to plug any of the projects that you may be working on.