Simplest PHP example for retrieving user_timeline with Twitter API version 1.1

Question

Because of the Twitter API 1.0 retirement as of June 11th 2013, the script below does not work anymore.

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$ch = curl_init(); 
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Answer 1

Go to dev.twitter.com and create an application. This will provide you with the credentials you need. Here is an implementation I've recently written with PHP and cURL.

$value){
            $r[] = "$key=" . rawurlencode($value);
        }
        return $method."&" . rawurlencode($baseURI) . '&' . rawurlencode(implode('&', $r));
    }

    function buildAuthorizationHeader($oauth) {
        $r = 'Authorization: OAuth ';
        $values = array();
        foreach($oauth as $key=>$value)
            $values[] = "$key=\"" . rawurlencode($value) . "\"";
        $r .= implode(', ', $values);
        return $r;
    }

    $url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json";

    $oauth_access_token = "YOURVALUE";
    $oauth_access_token_secret = "YOURVALUE";
    $consumer_key = "YOURVALUE";
    $consumer_secret = "YOURVALUE";

    $oauth = array( 'oauth_consumer_key' => $consumer_key,
                    'oauth_nonce' => time(),
                    'oauth_signature_method' => 'HMAC-SHA1',
                    'oauth_token' => $oauth_access_token,
                    'oauth_timestamp' => time(),
                    'oauth_version' => '1.0');

    $base_info = buildBaseString($url, 'GET', $oauth);
    $composite_key = rawurlencode($consumer_secret) . '&' . rawurlencode($oauth_access_token_secret);
    $oauth_signature = base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha1', $base_info, $composite_key, true));
    $oauth['oauth_signature'] = $oauth_signature;

    // Make requests
    $header = array(buildAuthorizationHeader($oauth), 'Expect:');
    $options = array( CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $header,
                      //CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $postfields,
                      CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
                      CURLOPT_URL => $url,
                      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
                      CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false);

    $feed = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($feed, $options);
    $json = curl_exec($feed);
    curl_close($feed);

    $twitter_data = json_decode($json);

//print it out
print_r ($twitter_data);

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This can be run from the command line:

$ php .php