channel->item->title);
// check this status message against the one previously updated
// make sure your file exists, and that it's readable/writable by the server
$setMsg = "twitter.txt";
$fh = fopen($setMsg, 'r');
$data = fgets($fh);
fclose($fh);
// only update twitter if it's different
if ($msg != $data) {
/* inform twitter about something */
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // change to FALSE for not reporting XML output
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=" . urlencode( $msg));
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
ob_start();
$response = curl_exec( $ch);
ob_end_clean();
curl_close( $ch);
// check for success or failure
if (empty($response)) {
echo 'Error';
} else {
echo 'Twitter status for ' . $username . ' updated:
' . $msg . '
Powered by Twitterbook
';
// update the status file with this message
$setMsg = "twitter.txt";
$fh = fopen($setMsg, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fwrite($fh, $msg);
fclose($fh);
}
}
?>