public function ajax_get_recent_tweets()
{
if ($this->input->is_ajax_request()) {
// loading third party twitter api library
require APPPATH . 'third_party/Twitter/Twitteroauth.php';
$twitteroauth = new TwitterOAuth();
$consumer_key = $this->config->item('consumer_key');
$consumer_secret = $this->config->item('consumer_secret');
$access_token = $this->config->item('access_token');
$access_token_secret = $this->config->item('access_token_secret');
$hash_tag = $this->config->item('hash_tag');
$tweets_per_page = $this->config->item('tweets_per_page');
$connection = $twitteroauth->create($consumer_key, $consumer_secret, $access_token, $access_token_secret);
//$content = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials');
$data = array('q' => $hash_tag, 'result_type' => 'mixed', 'count' => $tweets_per_page);
$result = $connection->get('search/tweets', $data);
//echo "<pre>";
if (isset($result->statuses) && count($result->statuses) > 0) {
print_r(json_encode($result->statuses));
} else {
print_r(json_encode(array('status' => 'error')));
}
exit;
} else {
exit('No direct script access allowed');
}
}
