TYPO3 Social Data

display social feeds on your website

Features

• Create walls consisting of one or multiple feed data
• Supported connectors
  • facebook
  • youtube

Installation

"require" : {
    "dachcom-digital/typo3-social-data" : "~1.0.0",
}

Configuration

In the extension the target folder for storing post assets can be configured. Make sure that the value holds a valid combined FAL identifier (<storage-uid>:<folder-path>)

Setup

In the backend, prepare sysfolders for storing feeds and the posts.

Create a feed

Create a new record of type "Feed" which is found under the "Social Data" section. Select a folder as post storage and choose if you want to store assets of this feed's posts in the local filesystem. For configuring the feed's connector refer to the readme of the corresponding social data connector package.

Create a wall

To display posts of one or more feeds on your page, create a new record of type "Wall" which is found under the "Social Data" section. Select the feeds you want their posts to be included in the output.

Fetch posts

The extension provides a console command social-data:fetch:posts, which can be used from cli (for testing).

To keep the posts in sync, create a scheduled task of type "Execute console commands", and select the above command.

Display the data

Use the Plugin "Social Data" and select the desired wall to output the posts in the frontend.

Troubleshooting

Log messages are logged into var/log/typo3_socialdata_<hash>.log. The level of respected messages depends on the application context. Switch the application context to Development to have more detailed logs.

Create custom connector

• create implementations of
  • ConnectorDefinitionInterface (puts connector and feed configuration together)
  • ConnectorFeedConfigurationInterface (model for the connector's feed configuration)
    • create the flex form file with the configuration fields
    • create the connector status form element class (use AbstractConnectorStatusElement as a base)
  • ConnectorInterface (business logic to fetch the data)
    • make sure the items returned by fetchItems are correctly prepared

      [
          'id'         => // string, must be unique for posts in this feed
          'title'      => // string
          'content'    => // string
          'datetime'   => // DateTime|null
          'url'        => // string, absolute url to the post, 
          'posterUrl'  => // string, absolute url to the poster image
          'mediaUrl'   => // string, absolute url to media (video, image or link)
      ]

• register the connector implementation:

  YourVendor\YourPackage\Connector\YourConnectorDefinition:
        tags:
            - name: social_data.connector_definition
              identifier: your-identifier
              connector: YourVendor\YourPackage\Connector\YourConnector 

Copyright and License

Copyright: DACHCOM.DIGITAL For licensing details please visit LICENSE.md