If you want to validate Twitter username using PHP i.e check whether its\u00a0available\u00a0for registration or not, this can be easily achieved using CURL. The following function will check whether twitter username exists for registration or if it is already registered.<\/p>\n
Use the following code to validate Twitter Username using PHP:<\/p>\n
<?php\nfunction validate_twitter_username($username)\n{\n$twitter_url='http:\/\/api.twitter.com\/1\/users\/show\/'.$username.'.xml';\n\n$init = curl_init();\ncurl_setopt ($init, CURLOPT_URL, $twitter_url);\ncurl_setopt ($init, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 20);\ncurl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);\ncurl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);\ncurl_setopt($init, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);\n\ncurl_exec($init);\n$result_header = curl_getinfo($init, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);\ncurl_close($init);\n\n\/\/ IF username does note exist, then it means its avilable for registration\nif( '404' == $result_header )\n{\nreturn 'Username is available.';\n}\nelse\n{\n\/\/ This means username is already taken\nreturn 'Username already taken.';\n}\n}\n\n\/\/Enter the username you want to check below and that's it.\n$username = 'extreme';\n\necho validate_twitter_username($username);\n?><\/pre>\nThat’s it!<\/h5>\n
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