Automatically posting Twitter tweets using php

[stubarny]

Hello,

 

I've found the following list of php directories for Twitter - please could someone tell me which one I should be using for posting tweets (using PHP script)? It seems they are trying to make this hard work! 

 

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/twitter-libraries#php

 

Many thanks,

 

Stu

[Gotharious]

Ok, If you're planning to post into twitter using php, I think this is a simple code to help you with it

 

<?php


$username = 'myUserName';
$password = 'myPassword';
$status = urlencode(stripslashes(urldecode('This is a new Tweet!')));

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);
$resultArray = curl_getinfo($curl);

if ($resultArray['http_code'] == 200)
echo 'Tweet Posted';
else
echo 'Could not post Tweet to Twitter right now. Try again later.';

curl_close($curl);
}


?>

[stubarny]

Hi Gotharious,

 

Thanks - That simple method used to work but Twitter has removed support for it now.

 

Does anybody else have any recent experience with posting to Twitter using PHP?

 

Thanks,

 

Stu