(PHP ActiveX) Upload Media to Twitter

Demonstrates uploading image or video files to Twitter. After uploading, the media_id can be used to attach the uploaded media to a tweet.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Assume we've previously obtained an access token and saved it to a JSON file..
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.JsonObject')
$jsonToken = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile('qa_data/tokens/twitter.json');

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.Http')
$http = new COM("Chilkat.Http");

// Provide the OAuth 1.0a credentials:
$http->OAuth1 = 1;
$http->OAuthConsumerKey = 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY';
$http->OAuthConsumerSecret = 'TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET';
$http->OAuthToken = $jsonToken->stringOf('oauth_token');
$http->OAuthTokenSecret = $jsonToken->stringOf('oauth_token_secret');

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.HttpRequest')
$req = new COM("Chilkat.HttpRequest");
$req->HttpVerb = 'POST';
$req->ContentType = 'multipart/form-data';
$req->Path = '/1.1/media/upload.json';

$req->AddHeader('Expect','100-continue');

// Add a JPEG image file to the upload.
// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.FileAccess')
$fac = new COM("Chilkat.FileAccess");

$jpgBytes = $fac->ReadEntireFile('qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg');
$req->AddBytesForUpload('media','starfish.jpg',$jpgBytes);

// resp is a Chilkat.HttpResponse
$resp = $http->SynchronousRequest('upload.twitter.com',443,1,$req);
if ($http->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print $http->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use new COM('Chilkat_9_5_0.Chilkat.JsonObject')
$jsonResponse = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$jsonResponse->EmitCompact = 0;
$jsonResponse->Load($resp->BodyStr);

if ($resp->StatusCode != 200) {
    print $jsonResponse->emit() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Show the successful response:
print $jsonResponse->emit() . "\n";
print 'Success.' . "\n";

// A successful JSON response looks like this:

// 	{
// 	  "media_id": 793137045996646400,
// 	  "media_id_string": "793137045996646400",
// 	  "size": 6229,
// 	  "expires_after_secs": 86400,
// 	  "image": {
// 	    "image_type": "image\/jpeg",
// 	    "w": 120,
// 	    "h": 120
// 	  }
// 	}
// 

// Get the information from the JSON:
print 'media_id_string = ' . $jsonResponse->stringOf('media_id_string') . "\n";
print 'size = ' . $jsonResponse->IntOf('size') . "\n";
print 'image_type = ' . $jsonResponse->stringOf('image.image_type') . "\n";
print 'height/width = ' . $jsonResponse->IntOf('image.w') . ',' . $jsonResponse->IntOf('image.h') . "\n";

?>