twitter api update status updating but no response from twitter - php

Question

having a bit of an issue with the twitter API. When I send something to https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json, the tweet (status update) does get sent, however, I do not get a response from twitter. When I send requests to any of the other api urls they work as expected and do return a response. Please see code below...
function postStatus($oauthToken,$status) {
//Create sig base string
$tokenddata = array('oauth_token'=>$oauthToken['oauth_token'],'oauth_token_secret'=>$oauthToken['oauth_token_secret']);
$status = rawurlencode($status);
$baseurl = $this->baseurl . "statuses/update.json";
$url = "{$baseurl}?status={$status}";
$authHeader = get_auth_header($url, $this->_consumer['key'], $this->_consumer['secret'],
$tokenddata, 'POST', $this->_consumer['algorithm']);
$postfields = "status={$status}";
$response = $this->_connect($url,$authHeader,$postfields,'POST');
return json_decode($response);
}
private function _connect($url, $auth, $postfields=null, $method='GET') {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC ) ;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array($auth));
if ($method == 'POST') {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
if (!empty($postfields)) {
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
}
}
$curl_info = curl_getinfo($ch);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}
And as I said before, the other requests that I am using are 'GET' requests and use the code below...
function getFromTwitter($url, $oauthToken, $params=null) {
$tokenddata = array('oauth_token'=>$oauthToken['oauth_token'],'oauth_token_secret'=>$oauthToken['oauth_token_secret']);
$baseurl = $this->baseurl . $url;
if(!empty($params)) {
$fullurl = $baseurl . "?" . build_http_query($params);
$postfields = build_http_query($params);
$authHeader = get_auth_header($fullurl, $this->_consumer['key'], $this->_consumer['secret'],
$tokenddata, 'GET', $this->_consumer['algorithm']);
} else {
$authHeader = get_auth_header($baseurl, $this->_consumer['key'], $this->_consumer['secret'],
$tokenddata, 'GET', $this->_consumer['algorithm']);
}
if(!empty($postfields)) {
$response = $this->_connect($fullurl,$authHeader);
} else {
$response = $this->_connect($baseurl,$authHeader);
}
return json_decode($response);
}
Thanks for all of the help!
-SM

Answer 1

Implementing code for social networks on your own can be a pain (in my opinion)
It would be easier for you to use twitter-async (https://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async)
I have added it before to my CI as a helper function then used it as is.
It was easy to use & well documented.