I've made little progress from my last post but I found this code;
<?php
$twitter_username = 'TWITTER USERNAME HERE';
$twitter_password = 'TWITTER PASSWORD HERE';
$errno = 0;
$errstr = '';
$response = '';
function httpRequest($host, $path = '/', $method = 'GET') {
global $errno, $errstr, $response;
global $twitter_username, $twitter_password;
$header = "$method $path HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$header .= "Host: $host\r\n";
$header .= "Accept-Encoding: none\r\n";
$header .= "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("{$twitter_username}:{$twitter_password}") . "\r\n";
$header .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
$sock = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$sock) {
die("<p><strong>fsockopen() error:</strong><br />$errstr ($errno)</p>");
} else {
fwrite($sock, $header);
while (!feof($sock)) {
$response .= fgets($sock, 128);
}
fclose($sock);
$response = trim(str_replace(array('<', '>'), array('<', '>'), $response));
return true;
}
}
echo "<p>Contacting Twitter...</p>\n";
httpRequest('twitter.com', '/statuses/update.xml?status=Testing+Testing+1+2+3!', 'POST');
echo "<p>Response:<br /><hr /><pre>$response</pre><hr /></p>\n";
?>
I'm rubbish at explaining so sorry if any one gets confused.
If I edit the last few lines, that is what gets posted on to twitter, as I'm sure some of you would already be able to tell. This file requires me to edit the message at the bottom and then 'visit' the URL in order to post it.
For example, if I uploaded that above code to my localhost, I'd visit localhost/twitter.php and then this would appear;
Contacting Twitter...
Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:27:40 GMTServer: hiLast-Modified: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:27:40 GMTStatus: 200 OKETag: "b363d4347d43725ea5d1c3ee0c63f8c8"Pragma: no-cacheCache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8Content-Length: 1722Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMTX-Revision: a5c6210d770d282e091e8cae25fc5450b30f7a54X-Transaction: 1248200860-4861-14321Set-Cookie: lang=en; path=/Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CToJdXNlcmkEQxQDAToTcGFzc3dvcmRf dG9rZW4iLTk0YzAwYTQ0MzAw%250AYmI2ZjFmODNkZDZjZWNkN DA0ZDhlMmI5MGZlODg6B2lkIiVjMWY1M2Y3ZTAy%250AZDJmOD E2OTE5OWQzNDY4NTRkYmFhZSIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u dHJv%250AbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZ WR7AA%253D%253D--4ba6076345ffc1e6d9435db1252b14c823e4e579; domain=.twitter.com; path=/Vary: Accept-EncodingConnection: close<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><status> <created_at>Tue Jul 21 18:21:25 +0000 2009</created_at> <id>2762283224</id> <text>Testing Testing 1 2 3!</text> <source><a href="http://apiwiki.twitter.com/">API</a></source> <truncated>false</truncated> <in_reply_to_status_id></in_reply_to_status_id> <in_reply_to_user_id></in_reply_to_user_id> <favorited>false</favorited> <in_reply_to_screen_name></in_reply_to_screen_name> <user> <id>16979011</id> <name>Craig Jones</name> <screen_name>CraiggJ</screen_name> <location>Dudley</location> <description></description> <profile_image_url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/318417751/abstract_brushes_2_normal.jpg</profile_image_url> <url></url> <protected>false</protected> <followers_count>109</followers_count> <profile_background_color>642D8B</profile_background_color> <profile_text_color>3D1957</profile_text_color> <profile_link_color>FF0000</profile_link_color> <profile_sidebar_fill_color>7AC3EE</profile_sidebar_fill_color> <profile_sidebar_border_color>65B0DA</profile_sidebar_border_color> <friends_count>116</friends_count> <created_at>Sun Oct 26 11:02:10 +0000 2008</created_at> <favourites_count>5</favourites_count> <utc_offset>0</utc_offset> <time_zone>London</time_zone> <profile_background_image_url>http://static.twitter.com/images/themes/theme10/bg.gif</profile_background_image_url> <profile_background_tile>true</profile_background_tile> <statuses_count>341</statuses_count> <notifications>false</notifications> <verified>false</verified> <following>false</following> </user></status>
Some of that looks promising, but I'm not sure how I would go about doing, what I'm trying to achieve, like using fields in order to post to that file so I wouldn't have to manually insert user details (username, password) and what I'd do next.
Sorry if I've confused some of you.