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Thats right. I think I said it a couple of days ago, however, i wanted to let you few souls who visit this blog sporadically know, we’re going on a trip. Amy and I that is. the girls are staying in Georgia. The wife and I are going to an all you can drink resort. How cool is that?
We looked at Disney cruises for the whole family, but we decided that we needed something for just the two of us. Good thing too with the third one on the way. Anyways, if there are no posts from me until next tuesday, thats why, I’m in jamaica and I have better things on my mind. No worries though, we’re taking three digital (one’s an underwater) cameras with us and plenty of flash cards. I’ll have photos and posts to let you know what happened on the trip!
Twitter is everywhere. Its on my phone, its on my laptop. It helped decide the election (don’t believe me, go search twitter for election, obama, biden, mccain, palin, vote or anything else to do with the election this year). It helped people find gas in Atlanta when we had a shortage. Now, its helping get the word out about the latest uploads to Linuxtracker.org.
Yesterday, I managed to cobble together some code (from some that I found online) that automatically posts to the linuxtracker twitter account *EVERY* time a new torrent is uploaded. It posts the name of the file as well as a link to the torrent details page. Its a pretty simple piece of code that actually uses the php_curl library to do the heavy lifting. The part I stumbled with was getting it to post the whole damned URL. Luckily I stumbled upon it.
I’ve posted the code below for anyone to use, mind you, I changed the names to protect the innocent, and I won’t answer any questions about it. I just wanted to share!
//Twitter Update!
$email = "USERNAME";
$password = "PASSWORD";
$status = "This is the status message here. Duh.
";$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml";
$session = curl_init();
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $email . ":" . $password );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ( $session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"status=" . urlencode($status));
$result = curl_exec ( $session );
curl_close( $session );?>
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