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Update Twitter From Your Website (HTML form)

Here is a small script that allows you to post updates to twitter from a simple HTML form on your website.

First thing you need is the form, this is a simple HTML form, very easy to add to your existing website:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="twitter.php">
  

  Twitter Username:
<input id="t_user" name="t_user" type="text" /&gt
  

    Twitter Password:
<input id="t_pass" name="t_pass" type="password" /&gt
    

    Your Latest Quote:
    <textarea id="t_update" cols="33" name="t_update">

    
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Post To Your Twitter Account!" /&gt
    

  </form>

Now for the script, just copy and paste this code into a blank document and save as twitter.php, you can name it what you want just remember to change the form action variable:

$username = ($_POST['t_user']);
$password = ($_POST['t_pass']);
$message = ($_POST['t_update']);

$url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if (empty($buffer)) {
    echo 'message';
} else {
    echo 'success';
}

And that is it, if you want to set the username and password then all you need to do is change:

$username = ($_POST['t_user']);
$password = ($_POST['t_pass']);

// to

$username = 'yourusername';
$password = 'yourpassword';

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