note 91775 added to function.stream-context-create

Nice example from http://fabien.potencier.org/article/20/tweeting-from-php : Twitter is everywhere nowadays. Odds are eventually you will want to tweet from PHP. No need to use one of the numerous PHP Twitter libraries, as tweeting is as simple as using the PHP built-in file_get_contents() function: function tweet($message, $username, $password) { $context = stream_context_create(array( 'http' => array( 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode($username.':'.$password)). "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n", 'content' => http_build_query(array('status' => $message)), 'timeout' => 5, ), )); $ret = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', false, $context); return false !== $ret; } Pretty easy, no? Using the tweet() function is of course a piece of cake: tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'fabpot', 'Pa$$'); As an added bonus, the function returns true if everything went fine, or false otherwise. ---- Server IP: 212.124.37.9 Probable Submitter: 88.73.70.51 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/91775 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/91775 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/91775 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php