Posting a file / image to twitpic.com using PHP and cUrl

Posting a file / image to twitpic.com using PHP and cUrl : GET POST : Development PHP Source Code

Oficial documentation for API API DOCUMENTATION
- METHOD: uploadAndPost
- METHOD: upload
- Error codes
- Image Thumbnails

METHOD: http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost

Use this method to upload an image to TwitPic and to send it as a status update to Twitter.

Fields to post in
(post data should be formatted as multipart/form-data):

- media (required) - Binary image data
- username (required) - Twitter username
- password (required) - Twitter password
- message (optional) - Message to post to twitter. The URL of the image is automatically added.

Sample response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rsp status="ok">
 <statusid>1111</statusid>
 <userid>11111</userid>
 <mediaid>abc123</mediaid>
 <mediaurl>http://twitpic.com/abc123</mediaurl>
</rsp>

METHOD: http://twitpic.com/api/upload

Use this method if you only want to upload a photo to TwitPic.

Fields to post in:
(post data should be formatted as multipart/form-data)

- media (required) - Binary image data
- username (required) - Twitter username
- password (required) - Twitter password

Sample response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rsp stat="ok">
 <mediaid>abc123</mediaid>
 <mediaurl>http://twitpic.com/abc123</mediaurl>
</rsp>

Sample error response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rsp stat="fail">
    <err code="1001" msg="Invalid twitter username or password" />
</rsp>

Error codes and their descriptions:

1001 - Invalid twitter username or passwor
1002 - Image not found
1003 - Invalid image type
1004 - Image larger than 4MB

Image thumbnails:

Use the following URL structure to add Twitpic thumbnails into your app:

http://twitpic.com/show/<size>/<image-id>

Size: mini or thumb
Image ID: this is the ID of the Twitpic photo

Example: http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/1e10q

*note: Twitpic Community Guidelines specify that if you use a Twitpic thumbnail in your app, the photo must link back to its original photo page or a link to the original photo page must be provided somewhere within context to the thumbnail

**note: this URL may forward to an amazon s3 URL

How do I get "from [my_application]" appended to updates sent from my API application?

Please email noah@twitpic.com with the name, URL, and description of your application. Your application must have a web site to which we can link in order to this up. Please allow up to 48 hours for the link to your application to go live, as this is a manual process contingent on TwitPic's deployment schedule.


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// Posting a file to TwitPic using PHP and cUrl.

// here are two possible ways to do this with php and curl.

// : navioo.com





// 1. using 'exec' to get php to execute a command line curl function



// $command = "curl -F media=@/full/path/to/your/image.jpg

             -F username=YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME -F password=YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD 

              -F message="your twitter message\" http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost";

// exec $command;



// nb: many php systems will not allow this. And you should also use caution when

// allowing your system to use the exec command. there are 'safe' ways for doing this.

//  See php.net for more info.

// nb: you MUST have @ at the start of your path. 

//       This is to tell curl that its a binary file you want to post







// 2. using PHPs built in curl stuff



$twitterUser = "YOUR_TWITTER_NAME";

$twitterPass = "YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD";



$tweet = "The message you want to tweet";



$fullfilepath = "/full/path/to/your/image.jpg";

$upload_url = "http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost";

$params = array(

    "media"=>"@$fullfilepath",

    "username"=>"$twitterUser",

    "password"=>"$twitterPass",

    "message"=>"$tweet"

);



// NB: do NOT forget to have the '@' sign at the start of the filepath. very common mistake!



if(!file_exists($fullfilepath)){



    echo "file does not exist!";

    exit;



}





$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $upload_url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);





// debug the raw response

echo "<hr>response:<br /><pre>";

print_r($response);

echo "</pre><hr>";





// then you could parse the response using SimpleXML



$rsp = simplexml_load_string($response);



echo "<br />status :".$rsp['status'];

echo "<br />statusid: ".$rsp->statusid;

echo "<br />userid: ".$rsp->userid;

echo "<br />mediaid: ".$rsp->mediaid;

echo "<br />mediaurl: ".$rsp->mediaurl;







// hope this helps!

// kosso



/*

ps: if you wanted to create simple html form to do this. That's easy too:



<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST" action="http://twitpic.com/api/uploadAndPost">

    choose a picture: <input name="media" type="file" /> <br />

    twitter username: <input type="text" name="username" /> <br />

    twitter password: <input type="text" name="password" /> <br />

    tweet message: <input type="text" name="message" /> <br />

    <input type="submit" value=" send pic to twitbin " />

</form>









*/





?>







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