spy30/app/Http/Controllers/TwitterController.php

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Log;
use App\Player, App\Team, App\Tweet, App\TransitCenter, App\TransitLine, App\Document, App\Mission;
use App\Events\NewTweetEvent;

class TwitterController extends BaseController
{

  public function input(Request $request)
  {
    $data = $request->all();

    // Find the user who tweeted this
    $twitter_user_id = $data['user']['id_str'];

    $player = Player::where('twitter_user_id', $twitter_user_id)->first();

    if(isset($data['extended_tweet']['full_text']))
      $text = $data['extended_tweet']['full_text'];
    else
      $text = $data['text'];

    // Unshorten URLs
    if(isset($data['entities']['urls'])) {
      foreach($data['entities']['urls'] as $url) {
        $text = str_replace($url['url'], $url['expanded_url'], $text);
      }
    }

    // Remove media URLs from tweet text
    $photos = [];
    if(isset($data['extended_entities']['media'])) {
      foreach($data['extended_entities']['media'] as $media) {
        $text = str_replace($media['url'], '', $text);
        $photos[] = $media['media_url_https'];
      }
      $text = trim($text);
    }

    // Find the mission hashtag
    $mission_id = 0;
    foreach(Mission::all() as $mission) {
      if(strpos($text, $mission->hashtag) !== false) {
        $mission_id = $mission->id;
      }
    }

    $tweet = new Tweet;
    $tweet->player_id = $player ? $player->id : 0;
    $tweet->team_id = $player ? $player->team->id : 0;
    $tweet->text = $text;
    $tweet->photo = json_encode($photos);
    $tweet->mission_id = $mission_id;
    $tweet->tweet_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($data['created_at']));
    $tweet->save();

    event(new NewTweetEvent($tweet));

    return $data['id_str'];
  }


}