Hi Adrian,

I would be happy to help and share my experience.  I'm not sure how much involvement you are hoping for, but I just had a baby girl and she has obviously been taking up a lot of my free time.

I'm a Software Engineer at an small engineering firm located in Michigan.  I have been a team engineering lead for the past 2 years at a Automotive Battery Manufacturing Facility. Much of my experience with PHP has been developing custom reporting and interface solutions for our customers main Oracle database. I have been working with PHP since my college days and that puts me right around 7 years of experience.  I only have about 2-3 years dealing with PHP frameworks though. So I may not have as much experience with PHP frameworks as a lot of other professionals out there, but I have a solid PHP background.

Good luck with your PHP magazine.  I love hearing about PHP advancing in all the industries.    

Thanks,
Doug

Thanks peterino for the input. Always happy to hear of better ways handling the Twitter API. I'll probably implement the error handling in some of my code.

Were you able to figure this one out?

Well, it is a little more tricky than just sending a blog post via curl script. Take a look at the Twitter Authentication Flow Overview that is in this post.

You can no longer send one "POST" to Twitter that updates your status. You have follow the flow that is outlined above. If you download the code that I linked to, you can take a look through that and see the exact process.

Are you just trying to make a "button" that is on a blog post that you would click to update your status with a link to the post? Maybe I can addon to this post with info into what you are looking for more specifically. Just let me know.

Okay guys, I made a new update. http://www.brownphp.com/2010/09/php-twitter-oauth... has a tutorial going through the new authentication method.

Yeah, Twitter made it super complicated to do something that should be so easy. Sometimes I have to give a big thumbs down to following the "crowd" for authentication... Hopefully when I get some free time I'll update this post with a link to a new tutorial and sample code for using OAuth.

I'll get this updated when I get a chance. I'm glad you are taking advantage of this post.

Sure, why wouldn't you continue? PHP frameworks are great. They can save a lot of time. I would suggest you use all the spare time you have to figure out the nuts and bolts of PHP thought. If you try to learn PHP's frameworks before you fully understand the language, you could be setting yourself up for failure.

Sure just add to the $status variable...

$status = $status . 'http://www.brownphp.com';

I would rather use a short URL service here and use that though. If you have a long url, that could hurt your 140 character length.

Wow, sorry for the long delay in the response. Short answer, it appears that your curl extension is commented out in your php.ini file.

Check you php.ini file out and look for: extension=php_curl.dll

Remove the semicolon out if one exists.