sendTweet.php

<?php
/*
 * sendTweet.php
 * 
 * To send a tweet, request the URL of this script with a status parameter like this:
 * http://localhost/sendTweet.php?status=this is a test tweet
 */

$status = $_GET['status'];
$username = "YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME";
$password = "YOUR_PASSWORD";
$twitterUrl = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json?status=" . urlencode($status);
$curl;
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $twitterUrl);
 
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
 
header('Content-Type: application/json');
 
print $result;
 
?>