Twitter CURL (found in the net, with some changes)

<?php

/*
        File: twitter.php

        Description:
                The following class is for using twitter.com

                This class was based off the work of Antonio Lupetti. Original Work can be found at:
                        http://woork.blogspot.com/2007/10/twitter-send-message-from-php-page.html

        Contributing Author( s):
                Antonio Lupetti < antonio.lupetti@gmail.com >
                Scott Sloan < scott@aimclear.com >

        Date: January 4th, 2008
        License: Creative Commons

*/
class Twitter {
        private $user;
        private $pass;
        private $ch;
        private $twitterHost = "http://twitter.com/";

        public function __construct($username, $passwd) {
                $this->user = $username;
                $this->pass = $passwd;

                /* Create and setup  the curl Session */
                $this->ch = curl_init();

                curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
                curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
                curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$this->user:$this->pass");
                curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
                curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        }

        public function __destruct() {
                curl_close($this->ch);
        }

        public function setStatus($stat) {
                if(strlen($stat) < 1) return false;

                /*Set the host information for the curl session */
                $this->twitterHost .= "statuses/update.xml?status=". urlencode(stripslashes(urldecode($stat)));

                // setopt CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER fix
                if (!curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'))) return false;

                if (!curl_setopt($this->ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->twitterHost)) return false;

                /* Execute and get the http code to see if it was succesfull or not*/
                $result = curl_exec($this->ch);
                $resultArray = curl_getinfo($this->ch);

                if ($resultArray['http_code'] == 200) return true;

                return false;
        }
}

// usage
$objTwitter = new Twitter(TWITTER_USER, TWITTER_PASSWORD);
$objTwitter->setStatus($str);

?>