Here is a sample PHP snippet that will let a twitter user update their status using PHP code. I have it simply saying hello today is and the date. I’m thinking about running it from a cron script in an automated fashion in conjunction with another site that I run. To see the code I used click the more button unless you’re luckily enough to be sent to this post directly.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 | < ? $today = date("l F j, Y"); // Set username and password $username = 'username'; $password = 'password'; // The message you want to send $message = 'Hello today is '.$today; // The twitter API address $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml'; // Alternative JSON version // $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json'; // 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 'message'; } else { echo 'success'; } ?> |
What are some cool ideas for this? I’m thinking maybe it could tweet today’s weather forecast or something. I would like to get more in-depth and create an interactive bot just for fun.
