Sams Teach Yourself the Twitter API in 24 Hours

Hour 10. Building a Simple Twitter Client, Part II

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• How to send a message to Twitter

• How to send a direct versus a normal tweet

• How to sanitize messages

Updating and Adding New Files to Support Input Text Field

Now that we have a simple Twitter client to read messages, we need to work on making our client application send messages. The good news is that we can still use our current framework with a few additional files. In addition, we will introduce a few JavaScript calls to support user interaction.

First, we need to add to our index.php file to allow a user to type in a message.

Edit index.php

Open the file index.php, and after this line:

<title>twitterAPI 24</title>

Add the following line:

<script type='text/javascript' ...