Mark Dalby

The below function will allow you to send a DM to a Twitter user (assuming you are there friend). There is no success / failure checking with this function (I’m not going to make it too easy for you.)

<?php

# @purpose                                                              To send direct messages on Twitter.

# @param                $to                                           Who you want the message to go to.

# @param                $message                                The content of the message.

# @param                $username                             The username of the twitter user to send the message from.

# @param                $password                               The password of the twitter user to send the message from.

# @returns                                                                Nothing.

# @changelog        15/03/2008                           Mark Dalby              function declare complete.

# @docend

function twitter_send_dm($to, $message, $username, $password)

{

define(’POSTURL’, “http://$username:$password@twitter.com/direct_messages/new.json”);

define(’POSTVARS’, “user=$to&text=$message”);

$ch = curl_init(POSTURL);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, POSTVARS);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_exec($ch);

exit;

}

?>