Posting image with tweet

[cbielich]

Maybe I am missing something but is there a way to post an image with a tweet with your code?

As an example code I am trying something like this

require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');

/** Set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "xxx",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "xxx",
'consumer_key' => "xxx",
'consumer_secret' => "xxx"
);
$url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json";

$requestMethod = 'POST';

$twimage = 'image.jpg';

$postfields = array(
'media[]' => "@{$twimage}",
'status' => 'Testing Twitter app'
);

$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);

$response = $twitter->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->setPostfields($postfields)
->performRequest();

print_r($response);

[BugHunter2k]

You have to upload the image first. The api gives you an ID wich you send as media with yout post. eg:

require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php');

/** Set access tokens here - see: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/ **/
$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "xxx",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "xxx",
'consumer_key' => "xxx",
'consumer_secret' => "xxx"
);
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);

// Upload image to twitter
$url = "https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json";
$method = "POST";
$params = array(
    "media_data" => $image,
);


$json = $twitter
            ->setPostfields($params)
            ->buildOauth($url, $method)
            ->performRequest();

// Result is a json string
$res = json_decode($json);
// Extract media id
$id = $res->media_id_string;

// Send tweet with uploaded image
$params= array('media_ids' => $id);

$json = $twitter
            ->setPostfields($params)
            ->buildOauth($url, $method)
            ->performRequest();

[cbielich]

What is $this? and where does my $settings go so I cant send my tokens and such.

[BugHunter2k]

Oh, sorry
Just copied some line from my class. $this is the twitter class. You can use $twitter in your case.
Your settings will go in the initialization like you have done this far.

[helloarpitgshah]

Hey,

I got the response with the media_id_string but whenever I can check with the twitter, I can't find the images.

Can you please let me know about the issues?

Thanks,
Arpit G Shah

[gnanasekaranl]

HI ,
I can't tweet with image. I use above code i get API not defined error

ex: $json = $this->api

[BugHunter2k]

Code above was just a little copy paste out of a bigger project. Made a little modification with api-init. Haven't tested the changes, but give it a try.

[gnanasekaranl]

@BugHunter2k Not working. give me any other option

[J7mbo]

Take a look at the tests, they're usually a great indicator of how to do things.

Firstly, upload the image. Here's testMediaUpload().

Then, the following test creates a tweet with the id of the uploaded image.

Give that a try, they work otherwise the tests would be failing for everyone.

[gnanasekaranl]

Thanks for reply.
This test function, how can I run the function. Give me a example

[gnanasekaranl]

Finally I did.

$file = file_get_contents(DIR . '/img/logo.png');
$data = base64_encode($file);

// Upload image to twitter
$url = "https://upload.twitter.com/1.1/media/upload.json";
$method = "POST";
$params = array(
"media_data" => $data,
);

$json = $twitter
->buildOauth($url, $method)
->setPostfields($params)
->performRequest();

// Result is a json string
$res = json_decode($json);
// Extract media id
$id = $res->media_id_string;

$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json';
$requestMethod = 'POST';
$postfields = array(
'media_ids' => $id,
'status' => 'This is machine test' );

if(strlen($postfields['status']) <= 140)
{
//$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
echo $twitter->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
->setPostfields($postfields)
->performRequest();
}else{
echo "140 char exceed";
}

[J7mbo]

Hi, this is an old one. I'm just going through and cleaning up issues, although if you still need help, please feel free to reopen a new issue. Thanks.

[cbielich]

I cant even remember what I did to fix it lol

[webboyon]

Hi all this what got me
twiiter says
media required // really!!!
media_data required

all you have to do is create the array and only use media_data => base64_encode(file_get_contents(...));
Working prefect for uploding image and video

[birdbreath]

Returns:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function buildOauth() on null

Any

idea why?

[birdbreath]

line 32

[stepinnsolution2]

Did above code work?

[birdbreath]

No, but this revised one did: