A couple of weeks ago I found and edited a php script to help me post photos to flickr from Tweetie for iPhone (now Twitter for iPhone — do keep up…). After using it for a while I realised the title of the photos got a bit too long for my taste and I spend a little time tweaking. I’ve now changed it so that the first sentence (up to the first . or ! or ?) becomes the title. The rest becomes the description of the photo. For me this works out pretty well.
I added the following lines (changing the last line of my previous tweak to prevent confusion):
//previously the above line said: $title = preg_replace("/#\w+/i", '', $title);
if (preg_match("/^.*(\.|\!|\?)/U", $string, $matches)) {
$title = $matches[0];
$description = preg_replace("/^.*(\.|\!|\?)/U", '', $string);
}
else {
$title = $string;
$description = "";
}
right before:
'api_key' => API_KEY,
'auth_token' => API_TOKEN,
'tags' => $tags,
'title' => $title,
'description' => $description,
);
Note that I also added that last field in there (‘description’). I haven’t completely tested it, however, my limited tests seemed to work fine. I don’t really know much about php, so I probably used more lines than I needed. This way I could keep track of what I did though, and I think I’ll still understand my changes a couple of months from now.
