Posting links to twitter

PHP
1

Hi Guys!

Does anyone know how using the Twitter API to post a status update along with a link?

I am using the following class/code (i’ve tried emailing the author, but no response):


/* Twitter Plugin */
require_once(DIR.'/includes/twitter/tmhOAuth.php');
require_once(DIR.'/includes/twitter/tmhUtilities.php');
			
$tmhOAuth = new tmhOAuth(array(
	'consumer_key'    => 'secret',
 	'consumer_secret' => 'secret',
  	'user_token'      => 'secret',
  	'user_secret'     => 'secret'));
				
$twitter_content = $_POST['job_title'].' - '.strip_tags($_POST['job_description']).' '.SITEURL.'/'.$this->settings['company_directory'].'/'.$jobinfo['company_url'].'/'.$jobinfo['job_url'];
$code = $tmhOAuth->request('POST', $tmhOAuth->url('1/statuses/update'), array('status' => $twitter_content, 'wrap_links' => 'true'));
			
if($code == 200) {
tmhUtilities::pr(json_decode($tmhOAuth->response['response']));
} else {
tmhUtilities::pr($tmhOAuth->response['response']);
}

Please help, im at a dead end.

Thanks in advance.

2

Isn’t it just a case of sending the URL in the text? And Twitter will automatically make it clickable?

Or am I missing something?

3

Hmmm that’s what I thought, but it doesn’t seem to be the case - weird.

4

Just a guess, but did you try setting $twitter_content with some concrete text values, less than 140 chars? Maybe it is twitter clients that enforce the 140 limit proir to sending the request off?

5

It must just be the URL i’m using as it’s an IP address…also, do you know how to post bit links like they have here:
http://twitter.com/#!/simplysalesjobs

6

I’m sorry, I have no experience of this API and cannot think of anything else to suggest.

Apart from as I said, send in some concrete values and then keep adding complexity (url, shortened url and so on) until you discover the reason for the failure.