/**
* Post message on shacknews.
* Handles urlencoding
* Optional parentid parameter, if replying to an existing post
* @return int post id of succesful post
* @throws Exception on parse or PRL error
*/
public static function post($username, $password, $body, $parentId = null)
{
$fields = 'content_type_id=17&content_id=17';
$fields .= '&body=' . urlencode($body);
if (!empty($parentId)) {
$fields .= '&parent_id=' . urlencode($parentId);
}
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "ShackAPI 0.1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ShackAPI::apiUrl);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
return ShackApi::parseResponse($result);
}
private function post($post)
{
try {
print "\n---------\n";
print $post->body;
print "\n---------\n";
return ShackApi::post($this->username, $this->password, $post->body, $this->parentId);
} catch (Exception $e) {
print "--> exception while posting {$e}\n";
while (true) {
print "--> exception caused sleep 120 secs\n";
sleep(120);
return ShackApi::post($this->username, $this->password, $post->body, $this->parentId);
}
}
}
