Twitter OAUTH returns an empty array

Question

I am working on twitter authentication, everything seems to work well till i get to getAccessToken which returns Array ( [ ] => ).

What I have done:

First phase:

$connection = new TwitterOAuth('xxxxxxxx','xxxxxxxx');

$temporary_credentials = $connection->getRequestToken('http://example.com/profile.php?passurl=1');

$redirect_url = $connection->getAuthorizeURL($temporary_credentials);

$_COOKIE['oauth_token'] = $temporary_credentials['oauth_token'];

$_COOKIE['oauth_token_secret'] = $temporary_credentials['oauth_token_secret'];

header("Location: $redirect_url");

second phase (this is where i encounter the problem)

$connection =
        new TwitterOAuth(
                'xxxxxxxxxx',
                'xxxxxxxxxx',
                $_COOKIE['oauth_token'],
                $_COOKIE['oauth_token_secret']
                ); 
$token_credentials = $connection->getAccessToken();

I intend saving the $token_credentials values in the database but it returns an empty array: Array ( [ ] => )

What am i not getting right?

please next time try to indent your code before posting it, it was totally unreadable! — m09, Apr 27 '12 at 16:24
In `twitteroauth.php` add a `var_dump($response);` to the end of the `http` function. This will be the raw response returned from Twitter. Is it an error or a an access token? — abraham, Apr 29 '12 at 22:54
this is what is returned: string(147) "oauth_token=xxxxstringxxxx&oauth_token_secret=xxxxstringxxxx&oauth_callback_confirmed=true" — Ogugua Belonwu, Apr 29 '12 at 23:17
@abraham returns: string(147) "oauth_token=xxxxstringxxxx&oauth_token_secret=xxxxstringxxxx&oauth_callback_con‌firmed=true". thanks — Ogugua Belonwu, Apr 29 '12 at 23:29
That is the response to getRequestToken. What about for getAccessToken? — abraham, Apr 29 '12 at 23:45
Can you do a [gist](https://gist.github.com/) of `var_dump($connection);` after `$connection->getAccessToken();`. Be sure to strip oauth secrets. — abraham, Apr 30 '12 at 00:30
It is very odd that it is an empty string as Twitter usually at least returns an error. — abraham, Apr 30 '12 at 00:31
@abraham Link to gist: for var_dump($connection) - https://gist.github.com/2554619 . for $connection->getAccessToken() plus my twitter authorize function - https://gist.github.com/2554656. thank you so much for the assistance — Ogugua Belonwu, Apr 30 '12 at 01:14
@abraham please use this for the var_dump($connection): https://gist.github.com/2554701; for $connection->getAccessToken() plus my twitter authorize function - https://gist.github.com/2554656 ... thanks — Ogugua Belonwu, Apr 30 '12 at 01:33

mpratt · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-06T14:14:05.873

Are you passing the "oauth_verifier" to the getAccessToken method? In the sample code you are giving, you are not doing it. Take a look at this diagram, specially on part D

OAuth Diagram

I have used twitteroauth in the past and I remember doing it like this. (starting second fase)

$twitterOauth = new TwitterOAuth($AppId, $twSecret, $_COOKIE['oauth_token'], $_COOKIE['oauth_token_secret']);
$twToken = $twitterOauth->getAccessToken($_REQUEST['oauth_verifier']);

$newTwitterOauth = new TwitterOAuth($AppId,  $twSecret, $twToken['oauth_token'], $twToken['oauth_token_secret']);
$response  = (array) $newTwitterOauth->get('account/verify_credentials');
var_dump($response);

There are a couple of suggestions I would do though:

Instead of stoing that information in a cookie, I strongly suggest you use sessions to do the job.
If you insist on using cookies, please use the setcookie function.

yeah, you hit the two issues: 1. i was not setting the cookie the right way. 2. i was not passing the oauth _verifier to getAccessToken. — Ogugua Belonwu, May 06 '12 at 15:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '12 at 18:35

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Where are you getting your TwitterOAuth class from? Is it a standard class? Or you've written it yourself? I would try debugging the class itself and putting more verbose output in the class functions.

answered Apr 27 '12 at 18:35

Reza S

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am using this: https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth... please kindly suggest any fix. thank you – Ogugua Belonwu Apr 27 '12 at 18:40
Try submitting a question on github for that project. You might get better responses there, since it's a custom class. – Reza S Apr 27 '12 at 18:46
is there any other available class one can use. I really need to get this working! arghh!!! – Ogugua Belonwu Apr 27 '12 at 18:49
If you're writing a project from scratch I used http://thinphp.com/ and it worked quiet ok for me. Maybe you can extract the OAuthTwitter class from that project – Reza S Apr 27 '12 at 18:52
Please i may not be able to extract the class from thin php framework – Ogugua Belonwu Apr 28 '12 at 07:25

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 09 '13 at 06:34

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why are you using cookies? using cookies it is a potential risk because are stored on the client side, use SESSION instead

Another question: in teh $redirect_url if u make a print_r of the $_COOKIE['oauth_token'] and the another one, r empty?

Im asking this because if u disable the cookies by some addon ( like webdeveloper in firefox) or in the browsers config. Maybe u r using empty values on $_COOKIE['oauth_token'], and $_COOKIE['oauth_token_secret'] .

edited Jan 09 '13 at 06:34

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answered May 03 '12 at 17:53

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i am having issues setting SESSIONS on the site, so temporarily for testing am using COOKIES which actually holds the right values. – Ogugua Belonwu May 05 '12 at 19:09

Twitter OAUTH returns an empty array

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