Zend Framework: Zend_Oauth and Zend_Service_Twitter

Question

First of all, I am able to successfully authenticate using Oauth. I am using Padraic\'s tutorial found here: http://blog.astrumfutura.com/archives/411-Writing-A-Simple-Twitter-C

Answer 1

We've done almost exactly this for Twitgoo.com (runnining full zend framework and twitter oauth login integration).

To generalize, we created two Zend_Auth_Identity models - one for password login one for oauth login. (actually 3 where 1 is 'anon' and fails all Zend_Auth). The identity holds the username and our local userid at minimum - for oauth it holds the Zend_Oauth_Token, for password it holds the password (we never store it). These identity models are what the Zend_Auth_Adapter for twitter returns, and what we pass to our Zend_Service_Twitter extension.

our twitter then takes in a Identity model, and handles setting up twitter for it.

class Tg_Service_Twitter extends Zend_Service_Twitter {

    public function __construct(Tg_Auth_Identity $login) {
        if ($login instanceof Tg_Auth_Identity_Password) {
            $password = $login->getPassword();
        } else if ($login instanceof Tg_Auth_Identity_Oauth) {
            $password = null;
            $httpClient = $login->getOauthToken()
                ->getHttpClient(Tg_Service_Twitter_Helper::getOauthOptions());
            self::setHttpClient($httpClient);
        } else {
            throw new Exception('not done yet');
        }

        $username = $login->getUsername();

        self::setupHttpClient();
        parent::__construct($username, $password);

        if ($login instanceof Tg_Auth_Identity_Oauth) {
            //makes it skip basic auth
            $this->_authInitialized = true;
        }
    }

The $username is required to be set from the login (which twitter gives back to you during getting access token) by some of the Service_Twitter functions.

I can add more specifics if needed.