There's not a particularly easy way to do that using just client-side HTML and JavaScript, no.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:00 PM, fumbler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. That pre-populates the Twitter status box after asking the > user to log in. What I'm trying to do is to post directly to Twitter, > and skip the login screen by passing the user/pass along with the post > if possible, since it will always be the same user anyway the user > pass can be hardcoded into the snippet. Is there an easy way to do > that? Either way, look forward to your new drop-in widget but hope to > continue exploring this route in the meantime. Thanks! > > On Nov 4, 4:08 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The way a number of sites do this is to provide an input box that then >> posts to our logged-in user home page with the "status" parameter >> filled out with what the user typed on the referring site. This HTML >> would do the trick: >> >> <form action="http://twitter.com/home"; method="get"> >> <textarea name="status">tweet goes here</textarea> >> <input type="submit" value="update" /> >> </form> >> >> Good luck! >> >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, drupalot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Thanks, I really look forward to that. >> >> > Meanwhile as a placeholder I have an interim super-simple box that >> > looks like it's almost working. Could you glance at this snippet and >> > perhaps let me know what I'm missing if it's something obvious? >> >> > <FORM ACTION="http://twitter.com/statuses/update.format"; >> > METHOD=POST>Your tweet:<BR> <TEXTAREA NAME="tweet" COLS=40 ROWS=6></ >> > TEXTAREA> <P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="submit"> </FORM> >> >> > I would like to pass username and password as well if there's a quick >> > line of simple html for that? >> >> > Thanks, and once again please forgive me my newbie-ness on this. >> >> > On Nov 3, 7:55 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> If you can hold on for a week or so, we're about to release a nifty >> >> new version of our drop-in widgets. The widget allows users to update >> >> and much more. >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:01 PM, drupalot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > In your opinion, what is the easiest way to add the "What are you >> >> > doing?" update box to a site? For starters, it's okay for me if the >> >> > update box is tuned to just one account. >> >> >> > Admittedly, I'm pretty much a non-developer that is decent with Drupal >> >> > and just starting to learn php, but am working on a project with a >> >> > friend that would require adding the Twitter update box to just one >> >> > page. If there is a way to embed the box as a widget through html or >> >> > php into a page, that would be ideal. Or if there are step-by-step >> >> > instructions for the full API I might be able to swing it, but not >> >> > sure I can tell from the API how that's done at this point. So far, >> >> > what I've found in the API is the following, and I'm embarrassed to >> >> > say I'm not sure how to do it with just these instructions: >> >> >> > Post a status update, authenticated: curl -u email:password -d >> >> > status="your message here"http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >> >> >> > Any thoughts for a newbie? >> >> >> -- >> >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
