Hello,
So heres my issue… or what I do not understand.
My initial thought was that twitters streaming api would make a post request to the url of my choice, in which i can handle data how ever needed… now after testing and finally playing, this isnt the case…
So, my app needs to get the latest follower/unfollowers and save them to the database. Now… this works, but only when i directly run the URL i need to.
Heres an example of my code:
set_time_limit(60);
$GLOBALS['time_start'] = time();
$account = TwitterAccounts::find(8);
$this->twitter->updateToken($account->token, $account->refresh_token);
$this->twitter->getApi()->setStreamingCallback(function ($message)
{
if ($message !== null) {
if(isset($message->event))
{
switch ($message->event)
{
case "follow":
//dd($message);
FollowList::create([
'account_id' => $message->target->id,
'followed_by_account_id' => $message->source->id,
]);
echo "{$message->target->screen_name} followed {$message->source->screen_name} <br>";
// return true;
return false;
break;
case "unfollow":
//dd($message);
echo "{$message->source->screen_name} unfollowed {$message->target->screen_name} <br>";
return false;
break;
case "user_update":
//When the user update their information
break;
}
}
flush();
}
if (time() - $GLOBALS['time_start'] >= 60) {
return true;
}
return false;
});
return $this->twitter->getApi()->user();
Sorry this is hard to explain, but… now, when a user is using the app, if their account receives a new follow or they follow a user, it would be automatically added to the database… but this only works if the url is being run, so how do i handle this?
EDIT:
If i were to remove the parts that close the stream, how would the stream start originally. Would i Cronjob it?
If i were to use the one stream like i have here, I dont understand how the token and stuff will differ from user to user
Thanks.
