Question

Why do I get this error?

Syntax error(s) [line 3:63 missing EOF at ‘select’]

Code:

$twitterUrl ="https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=";
$twitterUrl .= urlencode("select * from twitter.oauth.accesstoken where oauth_verifier=@verifier 
            and oauth_consumer_key=@consumer_key and oauth_consumer_secret=@consumer_secret 
            and oauth_token=@token and oauth_token_secret=@token_secret;");
$twitterUrl .= urlencode("select * from twitter.status.timeline.user where id='jzm'");
$twitterUrl .="&format=json";
$twitterUrl .="&env=http://datatables.org/alltables.env";

$twitterFeed = file_get_contents($twitterUrl, true);
$twitterFeed = json_decode($twitterFeed);

Answer 1

Your query is putting 2 select statements together, separated by a semicolon, something like:

select * from twitter.oauth.accesstoken where oauth_verifier=@verifier 
            and oauth_consumer_key=@consumer_key and oauth_consumer_secret=@consumer_secret 
            and oauth_token=@token and oauth_token_secret=@token_secret;select * from twitter.status.timeline.user where id='jzm'"

YQL only allow ones select statement, so it’s complaining about the second one. (It’s different in this regard from something like MySQL.)

You could re-order your parameters, making it one (valid) select statement like the following:

select * from twitter.status.timeline.user where
  id="jzm" and
  oauth_token="oauth_token" and 
  oauth_token_secret="oauth_token_secret" and
  oauth_consumer_key="oauth_consumer_key" and
  oauth_consumer_secret="oauth_consumer_secret"

Note that you'll still need to get the oauth_token and oauth_token_secret from the OAuth flow with Twitter. The advantage of YQL here is that it can do the request signing for you, avoiding the need for a 3rd-party OAuth or Twitter/OAuth library.