Tweet an Image to Twitter using PHP

Twitter remains one of the most popular social media platforms for sharing thoughts, media, and updates. Automating tweets can be a powerful tool for developers managing content-driven websites or applications. This guide demonstrates how to tweet an image using PHP, leveraging the Twitter API.

This tutorial is actually the second part of our previous tutorial : https://youthsforum.com/2024/12/post-tweet-to-twitter-using-php/

In previous tutorial, we actually tweet normal text. Now we are going to tweet an image.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, ensure you have:

• Twitter Developer Account: Create a Twitter Developer account and set up a project to obtain API credentials.
• Composer Installed: Use Composer to manage dependencies.
• Abraham’s TwitterOAuth Library: Install it using command : composer require abraham/twitteroauth

Full Source Code

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth;

$credentials = json_decode(file_get_contents('credentials.json'));

$connection = new TwitterOAuth(
    $credentials->api_key, 
    $credentials->api_secret, 
    $credentials->access_token, 
    $credentials->access_token_secret
);

$connection->setApiVersion('1.1');
$imagePath = realpath('image.jpg');
$image = $connection->upload('media/upload',['media'=>$imagePath]);

$tweet['text'] = "Silence Speaks more than Words";
$tweet['media']['media_ids'][] = $image->media_id_string;
$connection->setApiVersion('2');
$response = $connection->post('tweets', $tweet);

if(isset($response->data->id)){
	echo "Tweeted successfully";
}
else{
	echo "Tweet Failed Error: ".$response->detail;
}

Follow this video for complete guidance: