added README files for the piwik, twitter and statusnet addon

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____ Piwik Plugin ____
by Tobias Diekershoff
tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
This addon allows you to embed the code necessary for the FLOSS webanalytics
tool piwik into the Friendika pages.
Online version of this Document: http://ur1.ca/35m2x
___ Requirements ___
To use this plugin you need a "piwik":http://piwik.org installation.
___ Where to find ___
In the Friendika git repository @/addon/piwik/piwik.php@ and a CSS file for
styling the opt-out notice.
___ Configuration ___
Open the .htconfig.php file and add "piwik" to the list of activated addons.
$a->config['system']['addon'] = "piwik, ..."
You have to add 3 more configuration variables for the addon:
$a->config['piwik']['baseurl'] = 'example.com/piwik/';
$a->config['piwik']['sideid'] = '1';
$a->config['piwik']['optout'] = true;
The *baseurl* points to your piwik installation. Use the absolute path,
remember trailing slashes but ignore the protocol (http/s) part of the URL.
Change the *sideid* parameter to whatever ID you want to use for tracking your
Friendika installation. The *optout* parameter (true|false) defines whether or
not a short notice about the utilization of piwik will be displayed on every
page of your Friendika site (at the bottom of the page with some spacing to the
other content). Part of the note is a link that allows the visitor to set an
_opt-out_ cookie which will prevent visits from that user be tracked by piwik.
Currently the optional notice states the following:
This website is tracked using the Piwik analytics tool. If you do not want
that your visits are logged this way you can set a cookie to prevent Piwik
from tracking further visits of the site (opt-out).

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____ StatusNet Plugin ____
by Tobias Diekershoff
tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! This addon is currently in under development. If you have any problem !!
!! with it, please contact the Author. !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With this addon to Friendika you can give your user the possibility to post
their public messages to any StatusNet instance like identi.ca for example. The
messages will be strapped their rich context and shortened to to the character
limit of the StatusNet instance in question if necessary. If shortening of the
message was performed a link will be added to the notice pointing to the
original message on your server.
There is a similar plugin to forward public messages to Twitter Twitter Plugin.
Online version of this document: http://ur1.ca/35mpb
___ Requirements ___
Due to the distributed nature of the StatusNet network, each user who wishes to
forward public messages to a StatusNet account has get the OAuth credentials
for themselves, which makes this addon a little bit more user unfriendly then
the Twitter Plugin is. Nothing to geeky though!
The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the message
was longer then the maximal allowed notice length requires it, that you have
PHP5+ and curl on your server.
Where to find
In the Friendika git repository /addon/statusnet/, this directory contains all
required PHP files (including the Twitter OAuth library [1] by Abraham Williams,
MIT licensed and the Slinky library [2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license), a CSS file
for styling of the user configuration and an image to Sign in with StatusNet.
[1] https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
[2] http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky
___ Configuration ___
__ Global Configuration __
To activate this addon add statusnet to the list of active addons in your
.htconfig.php file
$a->config['system']['addon'] = "statusnet, ...".
__ User Configuration __
When the addon is activated the user has to aquire three things in order to
connect to the StatusNet account of choice.
* the base URL for the StatusNet API, for identi.ca this is
https://identi.ca/api/
* OAuth Consumer key & secret
To get the OAuth Consumer key pair the user has to (a) ask her Friendika admin
if a pair already exists or (b) has to register the Friendika server as a
client application on the StatusNet server. This can be done from the account
settings under "Connect -> Connections -> Register an OAuth client application
-> Register new application".
During the registration of the OAuth client remember the following:
* there is no callback url
* register a desktop client
* with read & write access
* the Source URL should be the URL of your Friendika server
After the required credentials for the application are stored in the
configuration you have to actually connect your Friendika account with
StatusNet. To do so follow the Sign in with StatusNet button, allow the access
and copy the security code into the addon configuration. Friendika will then
try to acquire the final OAuth credentials from the API, if successful the
addon settings will allow you to select to post your public messages to your
StatusNet account.

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____ Twitter Plugin ____
By Tobias Diekershoff
tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! This addon is currently in under development. If you have any problem !!
!! with it, please contact the Author. !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With this addon to Friendika you can give your user the possibility to post
their *public* messages to Twitter. The messages will be strapped their rich
context and shortened to 140 characters length if necessary. If shortening of
the message was performed a link will be added to the Tweet pointing to the
original message on your server.
There is a similar addon for forwarding public messages to
"StatusNet":http://status.net [[StatusNet Plugin]].
Online version of this document: http://ur1.ca/35mml
___ Requirements ___
To use this plugin you have to register your Friendika instance as an
_client application_ for Twitter with _read and write_ access, we do not intend
to use Twitter for login. The registration can be done at twitter.com/apps
and you need to have a Twitter account to do so.
After you registered the application you get an OAuth consumer key / secret
pair that identifies your app, you will need them for configuration.
The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the
message was longer then 140 characters requires it, that you have *PHP5+* and
*curl* on your server.
___ Where to find ___
In the Friendika git repository /addon/twitter/, this directory contains
all required PHP files (including the Twitter OAuth library [1] by Abraham
Williams, MIT licensed and the Slinky library [2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license),
a CSS file for styling of the user configuration and an image to _Sign in with
Twitter_.
[1] https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
[2] http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky/
___ Configuration ___
__ Global Configuration __
To activate this addon add @twitter@ to the list of active addons in your
.htconfig.php file
$a->config['system']['addon'] = "twitter, ..."
Afterwards you need to add your OAuth consumer key / secret pair to it by
adding the following to lines
$a->config['twitter']['consumerkey'] = 'your consumer KEY here';
$a->config['twitter']['consumersecret'] = 'your consumer SECRET here';
When this is done your user can now configure their Twitter connection at
"Settings -> Addon Settings" and enable the forwarding of their *public*
messages to Twitter.
__ User Configuration __
When the OAuth consumer informations are correctly placed into the
configuration file and a user visits the "Addon Settings" page they can now
connect to Twitter. To do so one has to follow the _Sign in with Twitter_
button (the page will be opened in a new browser window/tab) and get a PIN from
Twitter. This PIN has to be entered on the settings page. After submitting the
PIN the plugin will get OAuth credentials identifying this user from the
Friendika account.
If this first step was successful the Twitter configuration will be changed
on the "Addon Settings" page displaying two check boxes. One to enable/disable
the forwarding of *all public* postings to Twitter and one to clear the
personal configuration from the Twitter credentials.