Was rather bored this afternoon and then I though to myself "Why not add Twitter functionality to my music page?" So, after some digging through Twitter APIs and some refreshers on HTTP Authentication, I wrote this tiny, beautiful little script.

// Return values
define ("TWITTER_OK", true);
define ("TWITTER_UNAUTHORIZED", -1);
define ("TWITTER_TOO_LONG", -2);
define ("TWITTER_COULD_NOT_CONNECT", -3);

function sendTweet ($status, $userName, $userPass)
{

    // Open a socket to Twitter
    if (!($socket = fsockopen ("twitter.com", 80)))
        return TWITTER_COULD_NOT_CONNECT;
    
    // Create the headers
    $headers = "POST /statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1\r\n";
    $headers .= "Host: twitter.com\r\n";
    $headers .= "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode ($userName.":".$userPass)."\r\n";
    $headers .= "Content-length: ".strlen ("status=$status")."\r\n\r\n";
    $headers .= "status=$status\r\n";
    
    // Send the headers
    fwrite ($socket, $headers);
    
    // Get the response
    $response = "";
    while (!feof ($socket))
        $response .= fgets ($socket, 1024);
    
    // Check for HTTP status OK (200)
    if (!strpos ($response, "200"))
        return TWITTER_UNAUTHORIZED;

    return TWITTER_OK;
        
}

It is as simple as it looks. Enjoy!