Saturday 16 November 2019

How to Send Tweets automatically with PHP?

How to Send Tweets automatically with PHP?


Basic Requirements
  1. An Twitter account.
  2. An Twitter app. If don't have please create @ https://apps.twitter.com
  3. Twitter Auth REST API, If don't have please download from https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
  4. An Server, You can also test in local wampserver or xampserver


How to Send Tweets automatically with PHP, Follow following Steps:
  1. Include twitter files.
    require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php');
    require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/twitteroauth/config.php');
  2. Collect all constants values from your twitter app (i.e apps.twitter.com)

  3. Add constants in TwitterOAuth constructor.
    define('CONSUMER_KEY', 'YOUR_KEY');
    define('CONSUMER_SECRET', 'YOUR_SECRET_KEY');
    define('ACCESS_TOKEN', 'YOUR_TOKEN');
    define('ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET', 'YOUR_TOKEN_SECRET');
    
  4. $twitter = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET,ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);
  5. Now post the message.
    $message='This is test tweet.';
    $twitter->post('statuses/update', array('status' => $message));
  6. Refresh the twitter.com, you will see your message at top of page.