file_get_contents throws 400 Bad Request error PHP

Question

I\'m just using a file_get_contents() to get the latest tweets from a user like this:

$tweet = json_decode(file_get_contents(\'http://api.twitte         


        

Answer 1

Just a little addendum on Ben's answer. According to the PHP manual the CURLOPT_URL option may be set when inizializing the cURL handle with curl_init().

// make request
$ch = curl_init("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/User.json");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
$output = curl_exec($ch);   

// convert response
$output = json_decode($output);

// handle error; error output
if(curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) !== 200) {

  var_dump($output);
}

curl_close($ch);