Hi!
I have a PHP script I've downloaded from somewhere (don't remember where, but the developers link is dead) and I want to modify it. Actually I want an extra page.
The script has 2 files, tw.php and parse.php. In tw.php you should enter your twitter account (user+pass) and the feed you want to publish on twitter. That's it, just open it in the browser.
This is very useful for me, but... I want to share it with my site's visitors, so I need a third page where people can submit their informations (twitter, pass, feed) to publish their feed on their sites. A form, basically, nothing more. But since I don't know PHP I cannot do it myself.
So, can someone, please, make the third page for me or modify the tw.php in order to allow it to do that?
Thank you very much! if is not possible, I hope at least it will be useful to others.
TW.php

<?php
/* 
RSS to Twitter v0.1
by paul stamatiou 
of http://paulstamatiou.com
based on code from
http://morethanseven.net/posts/posting-to-twitter-using-php
*/
include('parse.php');
$uname = '';//example "blah" for twitter.com/blah, or your email address
$pwd = '';

$twitter_url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
$feed = ""; //the feed you want to micro-syndicate
$rss = new lastRSS;
if ($rs = $rss->get($feed)){
    $title = $rs[items][0][title];
	$url = $rs[items][0][link];
} else { die('Error: RSS file not found, dude.'); }
$tiny_url =  file_get_contents("http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=" . $url);
$status = $title . " " . $tiny_url;
echo $status; //just for status if you are directly viewing the script
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,"$twitter_url");
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"status=$status");
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$uname:$pwd");
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if (empty($buffer)){echo '<br/>message';}else{echo '<br/>success';}?>

Parse.php

<?php
/*
 ======================================================================
 lastRSS 0.9.1
 
 Simple yet powerfull PHP class to parse RSS files.
 
 by Vojtech Semecky, webmaster @ webdot . cz
 
 Latest version, features, manual and examples:
     http://lastrss.webdot.cz/

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 LICENSE

 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.

 To read the license please visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
 ======================================================================
*/

/**
* lastRSS
* Simple yet powerfull PHP class to parse RSS files.
*/

class lastRSS {
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Public properties
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    var $default_cp = 'UTF-8';
    var $CDATA = 'nochange';
    var $cp = '';
    var $items_limit = 0;
    var $stripHTML = False;
    var $date_format = '';

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Private variables
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    var $channeltags = array ('title', 'link', 'description', 'language', 'copyright', 'managingEditor', 'webMaster', 'lastBuildDate', 'rating', 'docs');
    var $itemtags = array('title', 'link', 'description', 'author', 'category', 'comments', 'enclosure', 'guid', 'pubDate', 'source');
    var $imagetags = array('title', 'url', 'link', 'width', 'height');
    var $textinputtags = array('title', 'description', 'name', 'link');

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Parse RSS file and returns associative array.
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    function Get ($rss_url) {
        // If CACHE ENABLED
        if ($this->cache_dir != '') {
            $cache_file = $this->cache_dir . '/rsscache_' . md5($rss_url);
            $timedif = @(time() - filemtime($cache_file));
            if ($timedif < $this->cache_time) {
                // cached file is fresh enough, return cached array
                $result = unserialize(join('', file($cache_file)));
                // set 'cached' to 1 only if cached file is correct
                if ($result) $result['cached'] = 1;
            } else {
                // cached file is too old, create new
                $result = $this->Parse($rss_url);
                $serialized = serialize($result);
                if ($f = @fopen($cache_file, 'w')) {
                    fwrite ($f, $serialized, strlen($serialized));
                    fclose($f);
                }
                if ($result) $result['cached'] = 0;
            }
        }
        // If CACHE DISABLED >> load and parse the file directly
        else {
            $result = $this->Parse($rss_url);
            if ($result) $result['cached'] = 0;
        }
        // return result
        return $result;
    }
    
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Modification of preg_match(); return trimed field with index 1
    // from 'classic' preg_match() array output
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    function my_preg_match ($pattern, $subject) {
        // start regullar expression
        preg_match($pattern, $subject, $out);

        // if there is some result... process it and return it
        if(isset($out[1])) {
            // Process CDATA (if present)
            if ($this->CDATA == 'content') { // Get CDATA content (without CDATA tag)
                $out[1] = strtr($out[1], array('<![CDATA['=>'', ']]>'=>''));
            } elseif ($this->CDATA == 'strip') { // Strip CDATA
                $out[1] = strtr($out[1], array('<![CDATA['=>'', ']]>'=>''));
            }

            // If code page is set convert character encoding to required
            if ($this->cp != '')
                //$out[1] = $this->MyConvertEncoding($this->rsscp, $this->cp, $out[1]);
                $out[1] = iconv($this->rsscp, $this->cp.'//TRANSLIT', $out[1]);
            // Return result
            return trim($out[1]);
        } else {
        // if there is NO result, return empty string
            return '';
        }
    }

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Replace HTML entities &something; by real characters
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    function unhtmlentities ($string) {
        // Get HTML entities table
        $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES, ENT_QUOTES);
        // Flip keys<==>values
        $trans_tbl = array_flip ($trans_tbl);
        // Add support for &apos; entity (missing in HTML_ENTITIES)
        $trans_tbl += array('&apos;' => "'");
        // Replace entities by values
        return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl);
    }

    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Parse() is private method used by Get() to load and parse RSS file.
    // Don't use Parse() in your scripts - use Get($rss_file) instead.
    // -------------------------------------------------------------------
    function Parse ($rss_url) {
        // Open and load RSS file
        if ($f = @fopen($rss_url, 'r')) {
            $rss_content = '';
            while (!feof($f)) {
                $rss_content .= fgets($f, 4096);
            }
            fclose($f);

            // Parse document encoding
            $result['encoding'] = $this->my_preg_match("'encoding=[\'\"](.*?)[\'\"]'si", $rss_content);
            // if document codepage is specified, use it
            if ($result['encoding'] != '')
                { $this->rsscp = $result['encoding']; } // This is used in my_preg_match()
            // otherwise use the default codepage
            else
                { $this->rsscp = $this->default_cp; } // This is used in my_preg_match()

            // Parse CHANNEL info
            preg_match("'<channel.*?>(.*?)</channel>'si", $rss_content, $out_channel);
            foreach($this->channeltags as $channeltag)
            {
                $temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$channeltag.*?>(.*?)</$channeltag>'si", $out_channel[1]);
                if ($temp != '') $result[$channeltag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
            }
            // If date_format is specified and lastBuildDate is valid
            if ($this->date_format != '' && ($timestamp = strtotime($result['lastBuildDate'])) !==-1) {
                        // convert lastBuildDate to specified date format
                        $result['lastBuildDate'] = date($this->date_format, $timestamp);
            }

            // Parse TEXTINPUT info
            preg_match("'<textinput(|[^>]*[^/])>(.*?)</textinput>'si", $rss_content, $out_textinfo);
                // This a little strange regexp means:
                // Look for tag <textinput> with or without any attributes, but skip truncated version <textinput /> (it's not beggining tag)
            if (isset($out_textinfo[2])) {
                foreach($this->textinputtags as $textinputtag) {
                    $temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$textinputtag.*?>(.*?)</$textinputtag>'si", $out_textinfo[2]);
                    if ($temp != '') $result['textinput_'.$textinputtag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
                }
            }
            // Parse IMAGE info
            preg_match("'<image.*?>(.*?)</image>'si", $rss_content, $out_imageinfo);
            if (isset($out_imageinfo[1])) {
                foreach($this->imagetags as $imagetag) {
                    $temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$imagetag.*?>(.*?)</$imagetag>'si", $out_imageinfo[1]);
                    if ($temp != '') $result['image_'.$imagetag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
                }
            }
            // Parse ITEMS
            preg_match_all("'<item(| .*?)>(.*?)</item>'si", $rss_content, $items);
            $rss_items = $items[2];
            $i = 0;
            $result['items'] = array(); // create array even if there are no items
            foreach($rss_items as $rss_item) {
                // If number of items is lower then limit: Parse one item
                if ($i < $this->items_limit || $this->items_limit == 0) {
                    foreach($this->itemtags as $itemtag) {
                        $temp = $this->my_preg_match("'<$itemtag.*?>(.*?)</$itemtag>'si", $rss_item);
                        if ($temp != '') $result['items'][$i][$itemtag] = $temp; // Set only if not empty
                    }
                    // Strip HTML tags and other bullshit from DESCRIPTION
                    if ($this->stripHTML && $result['items'][$i]['description'])
                        $result['items'][$i]['description'] = strip_tags($this->unhtmlentities(strip_tags($result['items'][$i]['description'])));
                    // Strip HTML tags and other bullshit from TITLE
                    if ($this->stripHTML && $result['items'][$i]['title'])
                        $result['items'][$i]['title'] = strip_tags($this->unhtmlentities(strip_tags($result['items'][$i]['title'])));
                    // If date_format is specified and pubDate is valid
                    if ($this->date_format != '' && ($timestamp = strtotime($result['items'][$i]['pubDate'])) !==-1) {
                        // convert pubDate to specified date format
                        $result['items'][$i]['pubDate'] = date($this->date_format, $timestamp);
                    }
                    // Item counter
                    $i++;
                }
            }

            $result['items_count'] = $i;
            return $result;
        }
        else // Error in opening return False
        {
            return False;
        }
    }
}
?>

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Member Avatar for diafol

You want people to give you their twitter login details? Why? Personally, I would never use such a service as it is a cobbled solution and therefore open to security issues. Unless it was similar to a 'Facebook Connect'.
You use cURL, so it should be ok-ish, but I wouldn't trust it. Somebody providing this sort of functionality could be into id theft - sending info to their DB before logging the user on to twitter.

Member Avatar for diafol

OK, perhaps I was a bit harsh. How about a form that allows up to 140 characters in a textarea:

Send the form - the post variable validates (and cleans if necessary) and redirects (via header) to something like:

$input = stripslashes($_POST['tweet']);
header("Location=http://twitter.com/home?status=$input");

THis *should* work if the user is logged in to twitter.

Thanks, but I don't need it. I can do what you wrote using only a form a javascript code, but what I want is (you haven't tried the script, haven't you?!) is to allow anybody to submit their feeds into their twitter accounts. I don't care about their passwords, actually if the autentification can be done through the twitter's api it would be better for me, too... but all I could find is this script and I don't know to modify it for my needs. I'm using it for myself now as a cron and it works perfect.

About the privacy, don't worry about twitter :) , worry about Google's decision to share its user information with the government agencies under the pretext of China's hacking attack. That's a dumb reason, IMHO. Next step is a CPU inserted in our ass to track us everywhere we go ;) - that's the privacy you should worry about.

Its also worth noting that API-password authentication is being phased out over the next 18 months so you are much better off setting up an application using the o-auth API

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