I am currently exploring PHP/POST methods to assist me in my day-to-day job as a Web Developer. Despite following online tutorials, when I attempt to submit the form, the page redirects to bagelBack.php, but displays a blank page and does not submit the tweet. I am working on my local machine using XAMPP Apache. (There is also jQuery included on the HTML page)
UPDATE: The issue seems to be arising from line 40 of the PHP code ($connection->request, etc). While var_dump functions are working correctly, echo does not display anything. As a newbie in this field, I am puzzled by the lack of errors. Any insights?
HTML:
<form id="bagelForm" action="bagelBack.php" method="POST">
<label for="twitterName">Twitter Name: </label><input type="text" id="twitterName" name="twitterName"/><br />
<label for="bagelType">Bagel Type: </label><input type="text" id="bagelType" name="bagelType"/><br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
PHP (Mostly sourced from here):
<?php
/**
* bagelBack.php
* Example of posting a tweet with OAuth
* Latest version available at:
* http://140dev.com/twitter-api-programming-tutorials/hello-twitter-oauth-php/
* @author Adam Green <<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7140454115140731161c10181d5f121e1c">[email protected]</a>>
* @license GNU Public License
*/
$name = "@".$_POST['twitterName'];
$type = $_POST['bagelType'];
$tweet_text = $name.", your ".$type." bagel has finished toasting!";
$result = post_tweet($tweet_text);
echo "Response code: " . $result . "\n";
function post_tweet($tweet_text) {
// Using Matt Harris' OAuth library for connection
// Library link: https://github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth
require_once('tmhOAuth.php');
// Setting authorization values
$connection = new tmhOAuth(array(
'consumer_key' => '[redacted]',
'consumer_secret' => '[redacted]',
'user_token' => '[redacted]',
'user_secret' => '[redacted]'
));
// Making the API call
$connection->request('POST',
$connection->url('1/statuses/update'),
array('status' => $tweet_text));
return $connection->response['code'];
}
?>