Question

I’ve read through the documentation for using the APIs and I’m not quite sure how to incorporate OAuth into my current API calls. Right now, I just use…

file_put_contents("my_url");

… to get the JSON. Is there a way to add the OAuth credentials to that call or will I have to switch to using curl or some other method?

Answer 1

The answer to my question was to use stream_context_create as an additional argument to file_get_contents since the OAuth parameters get passed in the request headers.

$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"Accept-language: en\r\n" .
          "Cookie: foo=bar\r\n" .
          "OAuth-Token: xyz\r\n"
 )
);

file_get_content('my url',stream_context_create($opts));

The above is not an exact example as its context dependent. But the stream_context_create() function is how you’d dictate what headers are sent when using file_get_contents().