A PHP class to handle Twitter API version 1.1. requests without the need for user authentication

twitterConsole.php

<?php
class twitterConsole {
    // This Class handles sending requests to Twitter's API without user authentication (See example at the end of the file)
    
    private $twitterKey = 'ENTER_YOUR_KEY';
    private $twitterSecret = 'ENTER_YOUR_SECRET';
    private $keyConcatination =''; // Will be generated while constructing the class (See Below)
    private $token = ''; // Will be generated while constructing the class (See Below)
    
    public function __construct() {
        $this->prepareRequestVariables();
        $this->token = $this->requestToken();
    }
    
    private function prepareRequestVariables() {
        $this->twitterKey = rawurlencode($this->twitterKey); // Uncodeing the data
        $this->twitterSecret = rawurlencode($this->twitterSecret); // Uncodeing the data
        $this->keyConcatination = base64_encode($this->twitterKey . ":" . $this->twitterSecret);
    }
    
    private function requestToken() {
    // This function will request an application token to be used later
        
        $url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token'; // The API that will provide a reponse with the valid Token
        
        $request = array('http' =>
                        array(
                            'method'  => 'POST',
                            'header'  => "Authorization: Basic {$this->keyConcatination}\r\n".
                                         "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8",
                            'content' => "grant_type=client_credentials"
                        ));
        
        $context  = stream_context_create($request);
        $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
        $resultJSON = json_decode($result);
        
        if(is_object($resultJSON)) {
            $token = $resultJSON->access_token;
        }
        else {
            $token = false;
        }
        return $token;
    }
    
    public function request($apiAddress, $dataArray) {
    // This function will handle requests to Twitter's API
    // Input: The full (incl. https) URL of the API and an Array of values to be sent
    // Output: JSON object that holds the response    
        
        if (!$this->token) { // We have no Token from Twitter
            return false;
        }
        
        $generatedURLRequest = $apiAddress . "?" . http_build_query($dataArray);
        
        $request = array('http' =>
                array('header'  => "Authorization: Bearer {$this->token}"));
        
        $context  = stream_context_create($request);
        $result = file_get_contents($generatedURLRequest, false, $context);
        $resultJSON = json_decode($result);
        
        return $resultJSON;
    }
}

/*
 * Example for requesting the ID of a user based on his screen_name
 * 
 * $twitter = new twitterConsole;
 * 
 * $response = $twitter->request("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json", array("screen_name" => "guynimni"));
 *
 * echo "This is the ID: " . $response->id;
 * 
 */
?>