On Oct 22, 2:05 am, Dave Sherohman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:22:44AM -0700, JB wrote: > > Does anyone have a way to compare these two strings in PHP? > > I have tried 3 different ways of comparing strings and they all fail. > > Even more so recently. > > > Looking for a solid way to see if a tweet was accepted by the API or > > not. > > Remember that every new status will be assigned a higher ID than any > previously-existing ID. > > Therefore, when you get/store the user's current statusprior to sending > the update (which you must be doing if you have its text), you can also > remember its ID. Comparing the ID against the returned ID from the > attempted update will tell you whether it was accepted or not. > Alternately, if this is the only reason you're checking/storing the > user's previous status, you may be able to save yourself a few API calls > by saving the last seen ID globally instead of keeping it updated for > each user individually. > > Using the ID rather than the status text should be more reliable, not > only because numeric comparison is much more straightforward than string > comparison, but also because the IDs are guaranteed to always be unique. > > This method could fail if the user updates his status using another > application, then comes back and submits an update from yours before > yours checks in with Twitter and is made aware of the new update, but > there's really no way to reliably detect whether the update from your > app has been rejected in that scenario. Which is why Twitter really > needs to stop rejecting updates silently and add some kind of indicator > (a non-200 HTTP status, an extra flag in the response payload, whatever) > to tell us when the update had been rejected (and, ideally, why). > > -- > Dave Sherohman
Thank you for the reply. For some reason, I never thought about using Status ID's. Perhaps I was unaware that they would be progressive. And yes.. silent rejections would be really helpful.
