Im having trouble writing a script that tweets the title and urls of
events getting posted. I go to texas a&M and am trying to tweet the
games and other events, so my literal tweet is

A&M vs tu Football Game http://www.mysite.com/beta/showevent1.php?id=482

but it only tweets "A"...thats it OR it doesn't show up. The first one
that gets tweeted with A&M at the start shows up as A, but then if the
very next one that starts with A&M won't show up at all.

but if the tweet doesn't start with "A&M", say the tweet is

Blaggards Concert http://www.mysite.com/beta/showevent1.php?id=483

then it works perfect. Tweets every time. I'm also checking to see if
the curl is successful....if it is-->update my tweet column to show
that it has been tweeted. The ones that start with A&M that come after
the "A" tweet don't show up on the twitter account, but DO get
updated.

heres my script


<?php
include("caneck.inc");

$cxn = mysqli_connect($host,$user,$passwd,$dbname)
          or die ("Couldn't connect");

//grab the first event that hasn't been tweeted
 $sql = "SELECT * FROM `test` WHERE tweet = '0' limit 1";
   $result = mysqli_query($cxn,$sql)
             or die (mysqli_error($result));


   $list = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);

$agurl = " http://www.mysite.com/beta/showevent1.php?id={$list['eventid']}";

$id = $list['eventid'];

$title = stripslashes($list['title']);

$tweet = $title." ".$agurl;

$username = 'myusername';
$password = 'mypassword';
// The message you want to send
// The twitter API address
//$urlb = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml';
// Alternative JSON version
$urlb = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json';
// Set up and execute the curl process
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$urlb");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "status=$tweet");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

//if tweet is successful, update row to reflect that
if(curl_exec($curl_handle))
{
$sqr = "Update test SET tweet = '1' WHERE eventid = $id";
$res = mysqli_query($cxn,$sqr)
             or die (mysqli_error($res));
}
else
{

}


curl_close($curl_handle);

echo $title;
echo $agurl;

echo "<br><br>";

echo $tweet;
?>

So my twitter account ends up looking like so after a few tweets

inaggietest Johnny Cooper Band http://bit.ly/1f3Go
26 minutes ago from web

inaggietest A
27 minutes ago from web

inaggietest Aaron Watson http://bit.ly/xCpR
28 minutes ago from web


inaggietest A
29 minutes ago from web


inaggietest College Station Knitting Meetup http://bit.ly/vbHr
30 minutes ago from web


inaggietest JEFF DUNHAM @ FIRST YELL http://bit.ly/fagF

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