Quick and easy to use prefab tweets
This isn't the cleanest project. I had the idea for something similar for a mobile hacktivist toolkit, but decided I could work the Tweet part out fairly quickly.
For this project, I used CASE programming. If you are not familiar, it stands for Copy And Steal Everything I can be a lazy prick, so I didn't want to keep writing the same code I took bits of what I had and threw them together in parts. I didn't rename everything. I was sloppy at times. It's not very pretty code, but it works.
I am limited by what my $2/per month hosting provider allows, so I used
MySQL for some of the data (http://links and @tags) (#hashtags and one liners are still hard coded) PHP was used to return JSON styled data in the "APIs". First, I hard coded a simple API for returning 3 random @tags that I enderingly termed twitterCeants I was going to just call it twitterTags, but where's the craic in that? I did the same for returning a random link, eventually, I want targeted messages and links to go @ different folks, so let's just call this one warLinks Then I created one to take all of those bits and form a hyperlink to ready a tweet, tweetAPI
As I worked on having the data in a database I did a thing to pull random records. MySQL's rand function is bollix performance wise. There aren't going to be that many records, so I grab the available IDs, pop into an array, grab them at random and filter a hard coded SQL statement.
The SamplePage is based off what we came up for the Bad MOFOS site, but it's function is really just to have the button click call a method that gets the constructed URL string from tweetAPI and opens a new window