sign twitter rest request with oauth token

Question

I have an app using the twitter rest API. Everything is working fine but we\'re bumping into rate limits so we need to authenticate using oAuth. I have the oauth token and secre

Answer 1

Twitter documentation links to a few PHP OAuth libraries that you can use to accomplish OAuth authentication.

Answer 2

Using the TwitterOAuth PHP library it is as simple as this:

<?php
require_once('twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php');
require_once('config.php');

$connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);

$content = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials');

There are several more example requests in the demo index.php.