How to Tweet in Twitter using PHP

Question

How can I tweet in twitter from my website? I am using a PHP script. Whatever tweets I send from my website should update my twitter account. I use the following code, but it is not updating in my twitter account:

// Set username and password
$username='myusername';
$password='*********';
// The message you want to send
$message = 'Nice to c all again.Have a nice day..';
// The twitter API address
$url='http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
// Alternative JSON version
// $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';
// Set up and execute the curl process
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"status=".$message);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$username:$password");
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
// check for success or failure
if (empty($buffer)) {
    echo 'Try again';
} else {
    echo 'success';
}

This script is returning a success message, but when I check my twitter account no tweets are found.

What could be the problem?

Answer 1

You are trying to send tweets using Basic Authentication (user name and password). This is no longer allowed. There are many examples of this online, but Twitter turned it off last August. You now have to use OAuth to do authentication.