shell_exec escaping quotes in php for Twitter API --> Getting CURL to work with obscure twitter api
- by yc10
I'm using shell_exec() to execute a Twitter API Call.
shell_exec('curl -u user:password -d "id=3191321" http://api.twitter.com/1/twitterapi/twitterlist/members.xml');
That works fine when I authenticate correctly and put in a number for the id.
But when I try to put in a variable ($id), it screws up.
$addtolist = shell_exec('curl -u pxlist:Weekend1 -d "id='.$id.'" http://twitter.com/username/twitterlist/members.xml');
I tried flipping the quote types
$addtolist = shell_exec("curl -u pxlist:Weekend1 -d 'id=$id' http://twitter.com/username/twitterlist/members.xml");
I tried using double quotes and escaping them
$addtolist = shell_exec("curl -u pxlist:Weekend1 -d \"id=$id\" http://twitter.com/username/twitterlist/members.xml");
None of them worked.
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: The purists say I should be using PHP's built in curl methods, not the shell_exec. That's not working either.
$url = 'http://twitter.com/user/list/members.xml';
// Set up and execute the curl process
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "id=$id");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:pw");
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
It returns bool(false), and doesn't properly update the Twitter List in question (the whole point of the exercise)
