Fair warning - there may be a more secure way to do this, but I'm not overly concerned about the terribly minuscule chance of someone figuring out how to post a fake tweet to my account. YMMV.
Your server will need to have PHP and Curl installed at the very least.
I used the instructions here
Search results - WebOS Internals
to add a few new items to global search, including Amazon, Twitter search, Gmail, and posting directly to twitter using the PHP API. What I did was create a php script on my web server that looks like this:
Code:
<?php
$uname = 'YOUR TWITTER USERNAME';//example "blah" for twitter.com/blah, or your email address
$pwd = 'YOUR PASSWORD HERE';
$twitter_url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,"$twitter_url");
curl_setopt($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=" . $_GET['status']);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"$uname:$pwd");
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
if (empty($buffer)){echo '<br/>message';}else{echo '<br/>success';}
?>
Save the file on your server as something like post-to-twitter.php, then follow the instructions at
Search results - WebOS Internals
to add the necessary new global search option and graphic. For the url that would normally be a search string, use
Code:
http://www.yourserver.com/post-to-twitter.php?status=
Now, from anywhere you can get to global search, just start typing your tweet. Choose your new search option when you're done typing it out and voila!
Thoughts?
Tweet directly from global search (requires a web host and PHP)
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