Converting Coldfusion Script to Php (twitter)

[tekboi]

Hi Coders,

I recently found a script online that clears tweets from a twitter account. The script is written in coldfusion which is not supported by most web hosts as you guys know. I'm a programming newbie, so I want to know if it's possible to code this same script in php so that it will work on my current hosts server. The code looks simple enough.

Here is the code below:

<cfhttp method="GET" url="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/foo.xml?count=2000" username="username" password="password" />
<cfset theList = xmlParse(cfhttp.fileContent) />
<cfset loopCount = arrayLen(theList.statuses.status) />
 
<cfloop from="1" to="#loopCount#" index="i">
	<cfhttp method="post" url="http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy.xml" username="username" password="password">
		<cfhttpparam type="formField" name="id" value="#theList.statuses.status[i].id.xmlText#" />
	</cfhttp>
</cfloop>

[cereal]

I think you can use cURL to do that, you may change this script to make it work fine, it's just an example:

//retrieve data
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/foo.xml?count=2000');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
$xmlRaw = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

//convert data
$xmlr = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlRaw);

//delete data loop
foreach($xmlr as $row)
{
$delete = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://twitter.com/statuses/destroy.xml');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $row->id);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_exec($delete);
curl_close($delete);
}

More info on cURL library: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

[tekboi]

THANKS for the reply, I am still a student when it comes to this stuff. I will look into cURL. thanks for the advice.

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