[php] Simplest PHP example for retrieving user_timeline with Twitter API version 1.1

Thanks to this thread, and especially budidino because his code is what drove it home for me. Just wanted to contribute how to retrieve the JSON data from a request. Make changes to "//create request" request array part of the code to perform different requests. Ultimately, this will output the JSON onto the browser screen

<?php
    function buildBaseString($baseURI, $method, $params) {
    $r = array();
    ksort($params);
    foreach($params as $key=>$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;
}

function returnTweet(){
    $oauth_access_token         = "2602299919-lP6mgkqAMVwvHM1L0Cplw8idxJzvuZoQRzyMkOx";
    $oauth_access_token_secret  = "wGWny2kz67hGdnLe3Uuy63YZs4nIGs8wQtCU7KnOT5brS";
    $consumer_key               = "zAzJRrPOj5BvOsK5QhscKogVQ";
    $consumer_secret            = "Uag0ujVJomqPbfdoR2UAWbRYhjzgoU9jeo7qfZHCxR6a6ozcu1";

    $twitter_timeline           = "user_timeline";  //  mentions_timeline / user_timeline / home_timeline / retweets_of_me

    //  create request
        $request = array(
            'screen_name'       => 'burownrice',
            'count'             => '3'
        );

    $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'
    );

    //  merge request and oauth to one array
        $oauth = array_merge($oauth, $request);

    //  do some magic
        $base_info              = buildBaseString("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/$twitter_timeline.json", '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 request
        $header = array(buildAuthorizationHeader($oauth), 'Expect:');
        $options = array( CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $header,
                          CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
                          CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/$twitter_timeline.json?". http_build_query($request),
                          CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
                          CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false);

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

    return $json;
}

$tweet = returnTweet();
echo $tweet;

?>