Developer Tutorials: Writing A Simple Twitter Client Using the PHP Zend Framework’s OAuth Library (Zend_Oauth)

Pádraic Brady announced on Developer Tutorials site completing Zend_Oauth’s Consumer implementation for the OAuth Core 1.0 Revision A specification. He also present example implementation of Tweeter client using new component.

The OAuth protocol enables websites or applications (Consumers) to access Protected Resources from a web service (Service Provider) via an API, without requiring Users to disclose their Service Provider credentials to the Consumers. More generally, OAuth creates a freely-implementable and generic methodology for API authentication.

Zend_Oauth might be released in Zend Framework 1.10 (due December?) and is already in incubator. See how it works before the official release.