Parsing string to twitter fails after ampersand
Good morning,

I am trying to pass a string to twitter, using the following code


    // The message you want to send
    $message = "http://www.smartphonesoft.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=" .$link_id . " " ."Android Software" . " " .$link_name . " " . $metadesc;
    
    // The twitter API address
    $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
    // Alternative JSON version
    // $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';
    // Set up and execute the curl process
    $curl_handle = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message");
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
    $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
    curl_close($curl_handle);

However all that appears on twitter is a link to

http://www.smartphonesoft.com/index.php?option=com_mtree

as can be seen here http://twitter.com/smartphonesft

How can I get it pass everything after the ampersand?

Thanks,

Greg

Parsing string to twitter fails after ampersand
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Good morning,

I am trying to pass a string to twitter, using the following code


    // The message you want to send
    $message = "http://www.smartphonesoft.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=" .$link_id . " " ."Android Software" . " " .$link_name . " " . $metadesc;
    
    // The twitter API address
    $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
    // Alternative JSON version
    // $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';
    // Set up and execute the curl process
    $curl_handle = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$message");
    curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
    $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
    curl_close($curl_handle);

However all that appears on twitter is a link to

http://www.smartphonesoft.com/index.php?option=com_mtree

as can be seen here http://twitter.com/smartphonesft

How can I get it pass everything after the ampersand?

Thanks,

Greg
