Tweeting from PHP
Fabien Potencier
Jun 14, 2009
Twitter is everywhere nowadays. Odds are eventually you will want to tweet
from PHP. No need to use one of the numerous PHP Twitter libraries, as
tweeting is as simple as using the PHP built-in file_get_contents()
function:
function tweet($message, $username, $password)
{
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode($username.':'.$password)).
"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'content' => http_build_query(array('status' => $message)),
'timeout' => 5,
),
));
$ret = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', false, $context);
return false !== $ret;
}
Pretty easy, no? Using the tweet()
function is of course a piece of cake:
tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'fabpot', 'Pa$$');
As an added bonus, the function returns true
if everything went fine, or
false
otherwise.
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