How to post status with image to Twitter using PHP?

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In this article, I will show you how to post status with image to your Twitter account using PHP.

But first, make sure you already have these items with you.

1. API Key
2. API Secret Key
3. Access Token
4. Access Token Secret

These items can be generated from your Twitter account developer page.

Step 1
Download codebird from GITHub.

Step 2
Upload codebird to your webserver

Step 3
Create a PHP file using this code. Please take note on the codebird.php file path.

function tweet($message,$image) {

// add the codebird library
require_once('codebird/src/codebird.php');

// note: consumerKey, consumerSecret, accessToken, and accessTokenSecret all come from your twitter app at https://apps.twitter.com/
\Codebird\Codebird::setConsumerKey("API KEY", "API SECRET KEY");
$cb = \Codebird\Codebird::getInstance();
$cb->setToken("ACCESS TOKEN", "ACCESS TOKEN SECRET");

//build an array of images to send to twitter
$reply = $cb->media_upload(array(
    'media' => $image
));
//upload the file to your twitter account
$mediaID = $reply->media_id_string;

//build the data needed to send to twitter, including the tweet and the image id
$params = array(
    'status' => $message,
    'media_ids' => $mediaID
);
//post the tweet with codebird
$reply = $cb->statuses_update($params);

}

Step 4
You can post the status and image using this function.

tweet('This is my tweet message','http://www.example.com/image.jpg');

That’s it! Now you can post any tweet with image using PHP. 🙂