This is just the basic code you’ll find EVERYWHERE on the net. In an effort to be more like Scoble I want to start posting in regards to stuff I’m using/finding/reading to make future efforts in reuse easier – delicious only goes so far, in regards to remembering “what did I tag that with?”
The PHP Function to Update Your Twitter Status
[code lang="php"]
<?php
/**
* A simple function using Curl to post (GET) to Twitter
* Kosso : March 14 2007
*
* Feel free to do what you like with this.
* It's pretty easy. But I thought I'd just put it out there.
* Curl is your friend.
*
* usage : postToTwitter("myusername","mypassword","hello twitterati! I'm posting this from a PHP script! woo!");
*/
function postToTwitter($username,$password,$message)
{
// GET the API url via web authentication
// add 'status' param to send a message to Twitter
$host = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=".urlencode(stripslashes(urldecode($message)));
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
// Go for it!!!
$result = curl_exec($ch);
// Look at the returned header
$resultArray = curl_getinfo($ch);
// close curl
curl_close($ch);
//echo "http code: ".$resultArray['http_code']."<br />";
if($resultArray['http_code'] == "200")
{
echo "<br />OK! posted to http://twitter.com/".$username."/<br />";
} else
{
echo "eek! yegads! error posting to Twitter";
}
// debug the result
// echo "<pre>";
// print_r($resultArray);
// echo "</pre><hr>";
// $sResult = htmlentities($result);
// $sResult = str_replace("><","><br /><",$sResult);
// echo "<pre>";
// print $sResult;
// echo "</pre>";
}?>
[/code]
I credit Kosso with the PHP function – it’s basically a slightly more blown out version of the code flaoting around.
