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Twitter Feed Integration into MediaWiki Sites

April 4th 2010 in Uncategorized

This was the most challenging aspect of creating my Wiki site on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). After installing other Twitter Feed widgets and extensions, none of which worked correctly, I then read an article (http://mediawiki2u.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mediawiki-skins-design-sample-chapter-chapter-8-social-netwo.pdf) on adding JavaScript provided by Twitter (at www.twitter.com/badges) directly to the html source (in the case of MediaWiki, then skin template must be modified. As I used a custom skin called RilPoint (similar look to SharePoint) I had to edit the RilPoint.php file in the /wiki/skins directory.




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In preparation of another assignment for OPIM 5165, I researched open source wiki platforms that would allow me to install and host them on my own domain. I found MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) and downloaded it. The installation was pretty straight forward, upload to webserver, create a MySQL database, create a database user, grant the [...]

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After using Twitter’s badge utility (which generates the html/flash code for you) I realized that it would only return my own Tweets rather than displaying all timeline Tweets for a search result (in this case ‘#SEO’). So I found an article (http://carsonified.com/blog/dev/how-to-get-started-with-the-twitter-api/) which describes a PHP wrapper for Twitter’s API that would allow me [...]

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