Function that uses curlWrap to take an email input and returns a user's id.

getUserByEmail.php

<?php
require_once('curlwrap.php');

function getUserIdByEmail($email) {
	$query = curlWrap('/search.json?query=type:user%20email:' . $email ,'',GET);
	$results_array = $query->results;
	$results_length = count($results_array);
	if($results_length == 1){
		echo "we found a single match, good stuff!\n User ID: ";
		return $results_array[0]->id;
	}
	elseif($results_length == 0) {
		echo "no results found!";
	}else {
		echo "we found more than one user with that email! The Sky is falling!";
	}
}


$users_id = getUserIdByEmail("some_email@domain.com");
echo $users_id;
?>