Update Twitter using command line or PHP
by Rekha[ Edit ] 2009-11-07 14:46:28
The easiest way to update your Twitter account is to just call curl from the command line with this command.
Suppose your username is xxx and password is mypassword,
curl --basic --user "xxx:mypassword" --data-ascii
"status=This Twitter update brought to you by curl on the command line"
"http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"
To update your Twitter status with PHP you are going to want to do the same sort of thing but with a bit more typing.
<?php
$username = 'xxx';
$password = 'mypassword';
$update = 'This Twitter update is from a php script using curl';//you can also get the updates from a html form and use post to get the value.
$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=".$update);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.":".$password);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if($result)
echo 'success';
?>;
