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Created March 12, 2013 09:46
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A working example of Twitter's new application-only auth, written in PHP.
<?php
//This is all you need to configure.
$app_key = '';
$app_token = '';
//These are our constants.
$api_base = 'https://api.twitter.com/';
$bearer_token_creds = base64_encode($app_key.':'.$app_token);
//Get a bearer token.
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Authorization: Basic '.$bearer_token_creds."\r\n".
'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8',
'content' => 'grant_type=client_credentials'
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$json = file_get_contents($api_base.'oauth2/token',false,$context);
$result = json_decode($json,true);
if (!is_array($result) || !isset($result['token_type']) || !isset($result['access_token'])) {
die("Something went wrong. This isn't a valid array: ".$json);
}
if ($result['token_type'] !== "bearer") {
die("Invalid token type. Twitter says we need to make sure this is a bearer.");
}
//Set our bearer token. Now issued, this won't ever* change unless it's invalidated by a call to /oauth2/invalidate_token.
//*probably - it's not documentated that it'll ever change.
$bearer_token = $result['access_token'];
//Try a twitter API request now.
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method' => 'GET',
'header' => 'Authorization: Bearer '.$bearer_token
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$json = file_get_contents($api_base.'1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=1&screen_name=lgladdy',false,$context);
$tweets = json_decode($json,true);
echo "@lgladdy's last tweet was: ".$tweets[0]['text']."\r\n";
?>
@cedricARN
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how to respond to a twitt from a friend from this code .?

@ArifAli999
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I'm getting a 401 HTTP error? Any idea

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