Twitter status with a variable

[treeleaf20]

All,

I have the following code:

$username = 'user';
$password = 'pass!';
$status = urlencode(stripslashes(urldecode('There is a new picture posted. Go check it out now: http://website.com/comment.php?picture_id=$id')));

if ($status) {
$tweetUrl = 'http://www.twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "$tweetUrl");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$status");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

$result = curl_exec($curl);

 

When I try and post this to Twitter everything posts fine except for the $id. How can I post this? Thanks in advance.

[mikesta707]

variables are not interpolated within single quotes. Basically the code

$name = "john";
echo 'hi $john';

 

would result in hi $john.

 

surround the string with double quotes to parse (or interpolate) the variable