Change Background image using Twitter API

I was playing with the twitter API and i found that they allow to change the background image and color scheme using API . So i tried to change those using php.

For this test i used the cURL and php . Here is the code

<?php

set_time_limit(0);
$twitterUser = $_REQUEST['username'] ;
$twitterPass = $_REQUEST['password'] ;

$link = "http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_background_image.xml"; // The URL to change the background image

$params = array(
			"image"=>"@$fullfilepath",
			"tile"=> $tile);

//$fullfilepath is NOT the http:// path , this is the file location . Its like /home/tmp/test.jpg . But if you want to use any file from the web you need to make a copy of that file in the server then use that .

// Tile is boolean , if you want to set the background tile then this should be 'true' , it took few minutes of me because i tried with 1 , then true but it needs string true so that is 'true' or "true" . 


twitter($link,$params); // Make the call with the parameters 

function twitter($link,$params){
	global $twitterUser; // This is the username
	global $twitterPass; // Password of the user

	$curl = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:')); // Without the header you'll get 100 Error
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $link);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
	curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$twitterUser:$twitterPass");
	$resp = curl_exec($curl);
	curl_close($curl);
	
	return $resp;
	}

Thats it. Have fun.

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