How to Update Your Twitter Status With PHP
Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to share 140-character updates with your online connections. One of the nice features about Twitter is its robust API, which allows developers to use Twitter in a variety of imaginative ways. Using the Twitter API, you can update your status by running a few lines of PHP code. Inserting this code into a PHP HTML file and visiting the page on the Web will result in your Twitter status being updated.
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Instructions
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Click "Start" > "All Programs" > "Accessories" and select "Notepad."
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Select "File" > "Open" and navigate to a copy of your PHP HTML Web page saved on your PC.
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Copy and paste the following piece of code after the <body> tag in your Web page:
/* PHP Update Settings */
$username = 'myuser';
$password = 'mypass';
$format = 'xml'; //alternative: json
$message = 'This is a Twitter update using PHP';
/* PHP Update Execution */
$result = shell_exec('curl http://twitter.com/statuses/update.'.$format.' -u '.$username.':'.$password.' -d status="'.str_replace('"','\"',$message).'"');
echo $result;
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Replace the "myuser" string of text with your Twitter user name and the "mypass" string of text with your Twitter password.
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Save the PHP HTML file and upload it to your Web server. If you are unsure how to do this, consult your host's technical support page.
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Visit your uploaded Web page on the Internet. When you visit the page, an update will automatically be sent to Twitter that says, "This is a Twitter update using PHP." That text can be altered by editing the "$message" line from Step 3.
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This doesn't work anymore. Use Oauth instead.
