Tweeting from PHP

Fabien, founder of Sensio and lead developer of the symfony framework, posted a short and very useful code for tweeting from PHP. Why you need to use lots of libraries while you can tweet easily ?

<br /> function tweet($message, $username, $password)<br /> {<br /> $context = stream_context_create(array(<br /> ‘http’ => array(<br /> ‘method’ => ‘POST’,<br /> ‘header’ => sprintf(“Authorization: Basic %srn”, base64_encode($username.’:’.$password)).<br /> “Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedrn”,<br /> ‘content’ => http_build_query(array(‘status’ => $message)),<br /> ‘timeout’ => 5,<br /> ),<br /> ));<br /> $ret = file_get_contents(‘http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml’, false, $context);<br /> return false !== $ret;<br /> }<br />

You can simply call it using :

<br /> tweet(‘From PHP, yeah…’, ‘usernamet’, ‘password’);<br />

Merci Fab.