PHP Extension

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 Extension

<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

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

$http = new CkHttp();

$http->put_OAuth1(true);
$http->put_OAuthVerifier('');
$http->put_OAuthConsumerKey('my-consumer-key');
$http->put_OAuthConsumerSecret('my-consumer-secret');
$http->put_OAuthToken('my-access-token');
$http->put_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 CkHttpRequest();
$req->AddParam('status','Maybe he'll finally find his keys. #peterfalk');

$req->put_HttpVerb('POST');
$req->put_ContentType('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

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

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


?>