Apr

How To: Update Your Twitter Status Using PHP.

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PHP, Twitter Tags

Twitter is social networking website which keeps your followers with you. Twitter provides an extensive API using which we can update twitter status through PHP code.

// Set your username and password
 
$username = 'YourAccount';
 
$password = 'YourPassword';
 
$message = 'Codeigniter Help'; // Which you want to update
 
$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
 
// Set up and execute the curl process
 
$curl_handle = curl_init();
 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message");
 
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
 
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
 
curl_close($curl_handle);
 
// check for success or failure
 
if (empty($buffer)) {
 
echo 'Failed !';
 
} else {
 
echo 'Status has been updated.';
 
}
 
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