note 91775 deleted from function.stream-context-create by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:59:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 91775 deleted from function.stream-context-create by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: fabien dot potencier at sensio dot com
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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.