note 91775 modified in function.stream-context-create by thiago

From: Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:33:06 +0000
Subject: note 91775 modified in function.stream-context-create by thiago
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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: <?php 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: <?php tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'fabpot', 'Pa$$'); ?> As an added bonus, the function returns true if everything went fine, or false otherwise. --was-- Nice example from http://fabien.potencier.org/article/20/tweeting-from-php : Twitter is everywhere nowadays. Odds are eventually you will want to tweet from PHP. No need to use one of the numerous PHP Twitter libraries, as tweeting is as simple as using the PHP built-in file_get_contents() function: function tweet($message, $username, $password) { $context = stream_context_create(array( 'http' => array( 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode($username.':'.$password)). "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n", 'content' => http_build_query(array('status' => $message)), 'timeout' => 5, ), )); $ret = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', false, $context); return false !== $ret; } Pretty easy, no? Using the tweet() function is of course a piece of cake: tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'fabpot', 'Pa$$'); As an added bonus, the function returns true if everything went fine, or false otherwise. http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php

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