tweet from php

<?php 
function tweet($message, $username, $password) 
{ 
  $context = stream_context_create(array( 
    'http' => array( 
      'method'  => 'POST', 
      'header'  => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s
", base64_encode($username.':'.$password)). 
                   "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
", 
      'content' => http_build_query(array('status' => $message)), 
      'timeout' => 5, 
    ), 
  )); 
  $ret = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', false, $context); 
 
  return false !== $ret; 
} 
?> 
 
Pretty easy, no? Using the tweet() function is of course a piece of cake: 
 
<?php 
tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'fabpot', 'Pa$$'); 
?>