Can't post pictures from web (with a URI) about tmhoauth

[innova]

Hi mogita
No need to download image from s3 bucket to your server. Following code works fine for me. I just create stream from amazon s3 image url then set it as post field.

    $image = file_get_contents('http://distilleryimage11.s3.amazonaws.com/d8f7dc28825b11e180d51231380fcd7e_7.jpg');
    $code = $tmhOAuth->request('POST', 'https://upload.twitter.com/1/statuses/update_with_media.json',
    array(
    'media[]'  => $image,
    'status'   => "Test uploading.".time() // Don't give up..
    ),
    true, // use auth
    true  // multipart
    );

Thanks

[mente]

Try using media without @. Probably curl tries to find file locally and fails to do it

[mogita]

@mente I removed the @ sign and got "(403) Error creating status" response. Tried several different image sources, the error messages were the same. And thank you anyway =)

[mente]

lib won't make any magic, it's a simple wrapper over rest call. Check documentation. Looks like it doesn't support external images uploading. You will have to upload it first.

[mogita]

@mente Thanks! It seems I have to download the image file first in order to upload.

[themattharris]

@mente thanks for helping with this one - appreciate you stepping in.

@mogita a little bit more background: the issue is that cURL itself, which tmhOAuth uses, doesn't support POSTing a file using a URL. instead the file being POSTed must be local to the script performing the upload - which means uploading to your server, and then to POSTing to Twitter. I have an example where I do this in https://github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth/blob/master/examples/images.php.

hope that helps.

[themattharris]

gonna close this issue as it the answers above explain that you need to post the image from the host running the code, rather than posting via a URL.