eZ Publish 5 Field Type Tutorial

This aims at covering the conception and development of a custom eZ Publish 5 FieldType.

We will do this by implementing a Tweet Field Type. It will:

• accept as input the URL of a tweet (https://twitter.com/<username>/status/<id>)

• fetch the tweet using the twitter oEmbed API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-tweets)

• store the tweet’s HTML & author URL in a custom database table

• display the tweet when displaying the field from a template

Steps

• The bundle

• API

• Converter

• Storage

• Signal