PHP ActiveX

Twitter OAuth -- Tweet to Your Own Account

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Demonstrates how to send a tweet (status update) to your own Twitter account using pre-known credentials, which includes:

1. Consumer Key
2. Consumer Secret
3. Access Token
4. Token Secret

PHP ActiveX

<?php

$success = 0;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

$http->OAuth1 = 1;
$http->OAuthVerifier = '';
$http->OAuthConsumerKey = 'my-consumer-key';
$http->OAuthConsumerSecret = 'my-consumer-secret';
$http->OAuthToken = 'my-access-token';
$http->OAuthTokenSecret = 'my-token-secret';

// Send the same status update as shown in this example:
// https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/update

// IMPORTANT: Make sure this app has read/write access.  
// Otherwise it cannot post an update (i.e. tweet) to the Twitter account.

$req = new COM("Chilkat.HttpRequest");
$req->AddParam('status','Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk');

$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->ContentType = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';

$resp = new COM("Chilkat.HttpResponse");
$success = $http->HttpReq('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json',$req,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

if ($resp->StatusCode == 200) {
    // Display the JSON response.
    print $resp->BodyStr . "\n";
}
else {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
}


?>