Richard Castera

Twitter is awesome! Using the simple script below you, you can post updates to twitter. Don’t forget to add your username, password and message below.

<?php
function tweetThis($strUsername = '', $strPassword = '', $strMessage = '') {
    if (function_exists('curl_init')) {		
        $twitterUsername = trim($strUsername);
        $twitterPassword = trim($strPassword);
		
	if(strlen($strMessage) > 140) {
	    $strMessage = substr($strMessage, 0, 140);
	}
		
	$twitterStatus = htmlentities(trim(strip_tags($strMessage)));

	if (!empty($twitterUsername) && !empty($twitterPassword) && !empty($twitterStatus)) {
	    $strTweetUrl = 'http://www.twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';

	    $objCurlHandle = curl_init();
	    curl_setopt($objCurlHandle, CURLOPT_URL, "$strTweetUrl");
	    curl_setopt($objCurlHandle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
	    curl_setopt($objCurlHandle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	    curl_setopt($objCurlHandle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	    curl_setopt($objCurlHandle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$twitterStatus");
	    curl_setopt($objCurlHandle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$twitterUsername:$twitterPassword");

            $result = curl_exec($objCurlHandle);
            $arrResult = curl_getinfo($objCurlHandle);

            if ($arrResult['http_code'] == 200) {
                echo 'Your Tweet has been posted';
            }
            else {
                echo 'Could not post your Tweet to Twitter.';
            }

	    curl_close($objCurlHandle);
	}
	else {
	    echo('Missing required information to submit your Tweet.');
	}
    }
    else {
	echo('Curl Extension is not installed.');
    }
}
?>

<?php
	// Send a Tweet to your Twitter account.
	tweetThis('my_user_name', 'my_password', 'my_tweet_message');
?>

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