1. Requirements
2. Installation
3. Usage
4. Resources

EChirp is a yii widget wrapping for Chirp.js.

Chirp.js is a lightweight templating JavaScript library that enables you to display tweets on your website. Client-side caching is available; and you can set if you’d like to show retweets and replies, too.

Requirements ¶

• Yii 1.1 or above (built and tested on 1.1.12)

Installation ¶

1. Download EChirp or Clone the files
2. Extract into extensions folder

Usage ¶

$this->widget('ext.echirp.EChirp',array('options'=>array('user'=>'nucreativa','max'=>10,'target'=>'tweet')));

List options :

• user — string Twitter username
• max — number The maximum number of tweets to show
• count — number The maximum number of tweets to retrieve
• retweets — true|false Show or don't show retweets
• replies — true|false Show or don't show at-replies
• cacheExpire — number Number of milliseconds to cache tweets (localstorage on the client).
• list — string Name of the list from the user to pull tweets from
• target — string Id of a target DOM object you'd like the tweets to get added to.
• success — function(json) A callback function called when tweets are successfully retrieved. The json data is the argument.
• error — function A callback function called when tweet retrieval errors.
• templates — json object A json collection with both the base and tweet templates. Example:

templates: {
  base:'<ul class="chirp">{{tweets}}</ul>',
  tweet: '<li><img src="{{user.profile_image_url}}"> {{html}}</li>'
}

Resources ¶

• Project page
• Try out a demo