Tweeting from PHP

Posted September 24, 2009 Comments Off

Thanks to fabien Potencier for this hint :

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$$’)

;

source : http://fabien.potencier.org/article/20/tweeting-from-php

Tags: devloppement, PHP, twitter

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