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Code snippet: sending a tweet in Sapphire

8 February 2010 2:51pm. permalink

Here's a quick post of a tweet() function that can be used to post to Twitter in Sapphire / SilverStripe CMS.

function tweet($username, $password, $tweet) {
    $rs = new RestfulService('http://twitter.com/',-1);
    $rs->basicAuth($username, $password);

    $headers = array('Expect: ');
    $response = $rs->request('statuses/update.xml', 'POST', array(
        'status' => $tweet,
    ), $headers);

    if($response->getStatusCode() != 200) throw new Expection("Tweet couldn't be posted to $username account");
}