A tiny PHP/Twitter script just for you!
Was rather bored this afternoon and then I though to myself "Why not add Twitter functionality to my music page?" So, after some digging through Twitter APIs and some refreshers on HTTP Authentication, I wrote this tiny, beautiful little script.
Code: php
- // Return values
- define ("TWITTER_OK", true);
- define ("TWITTER_UNAUTHORIZED", -1);
- define ("TWITTER_TOO_LONG", -2);
- define ("TWITTER_COULD_NOT_CONNECT", -3);
- function sendTweet ($status, $userName, $userPass)
- {
- // Open a socket to Twitter
- if (!($socket = fsockopen ("twitter.com", 80)))
- return TWITTER_COULD_NOT_CONNECT;
- // Create the headers
- $headers = "POST /statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1\r\n";
- $headers .= "Host: twitter.com\r\n";
- $headers .= "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode ($userName.":".$userPass)."\r\n";
- $headers .= "Content-length: ".strlen ("status=$status")."\r\n\r\n";
- $headers .= "status=$status\r\n";
- // Send the headers
- fwrite ($socket, $headers);
- // Get the response
- $response = "";
- while (!feof ($socket))
- $response .= fgets ($socket, 1024);
- // Check for HTTP status OK (200)
- if (!strpos ($response, "200"))
- return TWITTER_UNAUTHORIZED;
- return TWITTER_OK;
- }
- ?>
It is as simple as it looks. Enjoy!