How To: Update Your Twitter Status Using PHP.

Author: Zeeshan Rasool | Apr 16, 2010

PHP, Twitter

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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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// 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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Zeeshan Rasool is an experienced PHP Web Developer and founder at 99Points. Expert in Codeigniter (MVC), WordPress, JSON, jQuery & HTML5