From 812a45030639247bc6883b1f17b81df9f5d24197 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sbsatwork <97030650+sbsatwork@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 16:33:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Simple example for posting a status update

Created a new example script to show how to simply post a plain text status update to a Mastodon account.
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 examples/status_bot.php | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/status_bot.php

diff --git a/examples/status_bot.php b/examples/status_bot.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1610ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/status_bot.php
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+<?php
+
+include_once 'Mastodon.php';
+
+$token = ''; // Token of your Mastodon bot account
+$baseURL = 'https://botsin.space'; // URL of your instance (Do not include '/' at the end.)
+$privacy = 'private'; // "Direct" means sending message as a private message. The four tiers of privacy for toots are public , unlisted, private, and direct
+$language = 'en'; // en for English, zh for Chinese, de for German etc.
+$statusText = 'This is a status';
+
+$statusData = array(
+'status'      => $statusText,
+'privacy'     => $privacy,
+'language'    => $language
+);
+
+$mastodon = new MastodonAPI($token, $baseURL);
+$result = $mastodon->postStatus($statusData);
+
+// Activate the next line if you want to print the result of the query
+//var_dump($result);
+?>