Twitter Oauth via PHP WITHOUT cURL - php

Question

My server does not support cURL.
I want to update my status via php.
How to do that without cURL?
Again: WITHOUT CURL!

Answer 1

Here’s how you can tweet without using cURL with PHP.
We have two options-
With stream context
Php function stream_context_create has the magic. It creates and returns a stream context with any options passed.
<?php
set_time_limit(0);
$username = 'username';
$password= 'WHATEVER';
$message='YOUR NEW STATUS';
function tweet($message, $username, $password)
{
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode($username.':'.$password)).
"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'content' => http_build_query(array('status' => $message)),
'timeout' => 5,
),
));
$ret = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', false, $context);
return false !== $ret;
}
echo tweet($message, $username, $password);
?>
With socket programing
PHP has a very capable socket programming API. These socket functions include almost everything you need for socket-based client-server communication over TCP/IP. fsockopen opens Internet or Unix domain socket connection.
<?php
$username = 'username';
$password= 'WHATEVER';
$message='YOUR NEW STATUS';
$out="POST http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json HTTP/1.1\r\n"
."Host: twitter.com\r\n"
."Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode ("$username:$password")."\r\n"
."Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
."Content-length: ".strlen ("status=$message")."\r\n"
."Connection: Close\r\n\r\n"
."status=$msg";
$fp = fsockopen ('twitter.com', 80);
fwrite ($fp, $out);
fclose ($fp);
?>
Taken from here: http://www.motyar.info/2010/02/update-twitter-status-with-php-nocurl.html
Hope htis helps.
If you need any more help let me know as i am a php programmer myself.
thanks
PK

Answer 2

<?php
/*
* using file_get_contents
*/
$key = '';
$secret = '';
$api_endpoint = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=news'; // endpoint must support "Application-only authentication"
// request token
$basic_credentials = base64_encode($key.':'.$secret);
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Authorization: Basic '.$basic_credentials."\r\n".
"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8\r\n",
'content' => 'grant_type=client_credentials'
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
// send request
$pre_token = file_get_contents('https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token', false, $context);
$token = json_decode($pre_token, true);
if (isset($token["token_type"]) && $token["token_type"] == "bearer"){
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' => 'GET',
'header' => 'Authorization: Bearer '.$token["access_token"]
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$data = file_get_contents($api_endpoint, false, $context);
print $data;
}
?>

Answer 3

You can do that using the oauth pecl extension. See here for details.
EDIT: you need to install the pecl extension