what id_str, how to use id_str,right now im using id only right now..

[Rajesh]

please help me how to get id_str

what is id_str?

public function statusUpdates($token,$message)
{
global $logger;
$client = $token->getHttpClient($this->option_array);
$message_encode=$message;
$client->setUri('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json');
$client->setParameterPost('status',$message_encode);
$client->setMethod(Zend_Http_Client::POST);
$response = $client->request('POST');
//$content = $response->getBody();
}

/*
* TO SEND JOB DETAILS MESSAGE TO Twitter CONNECTIONS
*/
public function sendMessage($token, $sender_id=null, $message)
{
global $logger;
$client = $token->getHttpClient($this->option_array);
$sender_id = explode(',',$sender_id);
$message_encode=urlencode($message);

// Set Method (GET, POST or PUT)
$client->setUri('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json');
for($i=0;$i<count($sender_id);$i++)
{
$message_text = 'd '.$sender_id[$i].' '.$message;
$client->setParameterPost('message',$message_encode);
$client->setParameterPost('status',$message_text);
$client->setMethod(Zend_Http_Client::POST);
$response =$client->request('POST');
//$content = $response->getBody();
//$response_content = $response->getHeader();
}
}
/**
* Assues there is already a valid token available for this user
*/
public function getConnections($token)
{
global $logger;
$twitter_con_arr = array();
if ($token == null)
return $twitter_con_arr;

// Use HTTP Client with built-in OAuth request handling
$client = $token->getHttpClient($this->option_array);

// to get Twitter connections
$client->setUri('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/followers.xml');

// Set Method (GET, POST or PUT)
$client->setMethod(Zend_Http_Client::GET);

// Get Request Response
$response = $client->request();

// Get the XML containing User's Profile
$content = $response->getBody();

$xmlobj = simplexml_load_string($content);

$scxpath = array(
"tw:source_id"=>"/users/user/id",
"tw:screen_name"=>"/users/user/screen_name"
);

for($i=1;$i<=count($xmlobj->user);$i++)
{
foreach($scxpath as $k=>$v)
{
$twitter_con_arr[$k.":".$i] = $this->getValue($v,$i-1,$xmlobj);
}
$twitter_con_arr['tw:name:'.$i] =
$twitter_con_arr['tw:screen_name:'.$i];
$twitter_con_arr['tw:original_source_id:'.$i] =
$twitter_con_arr['tw:source_id:'.$i];
}
return $twitter_con_arr;
}

[Taylor Singletary]

There are a number of JSON implementations in languages like Javascript and ActionScript that result in truncation of larger integers. Recently Twitter's id-generation scheme for Tweets changed, resulting in larger integers. id_str is provided so that you have a string-based representation of nearly any identifier in Twitter's API, the only safe way to consume the identifier in languages with this problem.

In most cases, it's safest/best to use id_str when it's provided.

Taylor

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