Looking for simple and basic twitter plugin

[worldwise001]

Here's something:

<?php

$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$filename = '/path/to/textfile';
$script_home = '/path/to/script/dir';
$desc = 'file has changed:';
$show_contents = true;

// Don't change anything down here

function twitter_update($username, $password, $message) {
    $c = curl_init();

    $message = str_replace(' ', '+', $message);
    $message = str_replace("\n", '+', $message);

    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, true);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json');
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'status='.$message);
    
    curl_exec($c);
    curl_close($c);
}

if (!file_exists($script_home.'/datafile') || (md5_file($script_home.'/datafile') != md5_file($filename))) {
    if (!copy($filename, $script_home.'/datafile')) {
        die('Unable to copy file for local storage; '.$script_home.' needs world-writeable permissions');
    }
    $data = $desc;
        if ($show_contents) {
                $readlen = 140 - strlen($desc) - 1;
        $rsrc = fopen($script_home.'/datafile', 'r');
        if ($rsrc === false) die('Unable to open file; check permissions?');
        echo 'reading';
        $innards = fread($rsrc, $readlen+1);
        if (strlen($innards) > $readlen) {
            $innards = substr($innards, 0, -4);
            $innards .= '...';
        }
        fclose($rsrc);
        $data .= ' '.$innards;
        echo $data;
        }
    twitter_update($username, $password, $data);
}

?>

Explanation of variables:

$username - Twitter username
$password - Twitter password
$filename - full path to text file (e.g. /home/worldwise001/mytext
$script_home - full path to directory with script (e.g. /home/worldwise001/myscript)
$desc - message text to display on twitter
$show_contents - show the (partial) contents of the file (if true)

Directions:

1. Copy and modify the contents of the above code snippet into a php file (e.g. tweet.php)
2. Upload the file to the script directory, e.g. to /home/worldwise001/myscript/tweet.php
3. chmod the script directory to 0777
4. Add a cron job in your cPanel to run the script, e.g.:

   php -f /home/worldwise001/myscript/tweet.php

Hope this helps.

[essellar]

There's going to be a little problem with that -- Twitter has dropped basic authentication for the API (at the end of July, in fact) and now requires oAuth. That means you now need to make an authentication token request to your oAuth provider, then provide the token in a separate request to Twitter in exchange for an authorization token that you can then provide as your credentials for the status update. No more simple user/password in the request.

[worldwise001]

Hmm... are you sure about that? It worked for me last night when I tested it (I wrote this from scratch).

[lemon-tree]

Support for basic authentication was set to be disabled on the 16th of this month, so it seems odd that it is still working. Either way though, it is a dead method for any current development.