Comments on: How To Update Your Twitter Status With PHP and OAuth

By: enstine

enstine — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:48:39 +0000

Hello,
Is there anywhere to have an animated preloader here?

By: enstine

enstine — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:48:36 +0000

Hello,
Is there anywhere to have an animated preloader here?

By: enstine

enstine — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:44:32 +0000

excccccccccccccccccccccccccellent!

You just pull a string off my leg. Now I can continue

thanks a million.

By: Miguel Alvarez

Miguel Alvarez — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:31:01 +0000

You can't use friendshipsExists with EpiTwitter because the response twitter returns is not properly formatted (it's missing the line )

But you can do one of two things. BTW, they don't have to follow each other to be considered friends. But you can still check if they follow each other with option 2.

Option1:
You can use file get contents, this returns a string “true” or “false”, but don't use the string as boolean, compare it to “true” instead.

if(strip_tags(file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/friendships/exists.xml?user_a=username1&user_b=username2&#39 )==”true”)
{
echo “friends”;
}
else
{
echo “not friends”;
}

Option 2:

Use “friendships/show” instead of “friendships/exists”, this returns the previous information and more.
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Met…

Here is an example.
$friend=$Twitter->get_friendshipsShow(array('source_screen_name' => 'username1', 'target_screen_name' => 'username2'));

// check if person one follows person two
if($friend->relationship->source->following)
echo “username1 is following”;
else
echo “username1 is not following”;

// check if username2 is following username1
if($friend->relationship->source->followed_by)
echo “username2 is following”;
else
echo “username2 is not following”;

you can also use id's instead of usernames with “user_id” and “target_id” in the array.

By: enstine

enstine — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:48:08 +0000

Hi Miguel,
Thanks very much for the corrections.
Please one more thing... before I follow someone, I'd like to check if I'm already following that person. How is that done. If I understand well, users are said to be friends if they both follo each other
$twitter->get_friendshipsExists(array('user_a' => $id_a, 'user_b' => $id_b));

But I'd like just to check if I'm already following...

By: Miguel Alvarez

Miguel Alvarez — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:58:47 +0000

There was clearly a mistake in my javascript when assigning the value of the text field to a variable, sorry about that. (now it's fixed)

The line
status:$("#status").val();

should be
status=$("#status").val();

That should work now.

To follow some one use

$friend=$Twitter->post_friendshipsCreate(array('screen_name' => 'username'));
$friend->response;

To unfollow
$friend=$Twitter->post_friendshipsDestroy(array('screen_name' => 'username'));
$friend->response;

By: enstine

enstine — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:37:39 +0000

hello,
This is a great help to me given that I'm doing this oauth for my first time. When I try the post as you explained here, I get the word 'undefined' posted. Please help to correct that.

Secondly, how can I follow someone using this script?