使用API​​ 1.1通过PHP检索特定的直接消息信息

Question

I'm hoping you can help as I think I'm missing a trick here and can't find where I'm going wrong. I am looking to retrieve a few specific pieces of info from Twitter DMs via PHP. I've written some code to pull through what I'm after, but when running the script, only the message (tweet), ID, and date sent are pulling through. The rest like user name etc... remains blank. The current output can be found here: http://anonytine.hol.es/TDM94.php

Any help would be greatly appreciated:

  <?php
echo "<h2>Simple Twitter API Test</h2>";

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
require_once('TwitterAPIExchange.php'); 


$settings = array(
'oauth_access_token' => "XXXX",
'oauth_access_token_secret' => "XXXX",
'consumer_key' => "XXXX",
'consumer_secret' => "XXXX"
);
$url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages.json';
$getfield = '?since_id=240136858829479935&count=20';
$requestMethod = 'GET';
$twitter = new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$string = json_decode($twitter->setGetfield($getfield)
         ->buildOauth($url, $requestMethod)
         ->performRequest(),$assoc = TRUE);

echo "<h3>Direct Messages</h3>";          
foreach($string as $items)
  {
    echo "Time and Date of Tweet: ".$items['created_at']."<br />";
    echo "Message ID: ".$items['id']."<br />";
    echo "Tweet: ".$items['text']."<br />";
    echo "Tweeted by: ". $items['user']['name']."<br />";
    echo "Screen name: ". $items['user']['screen_name']."<br />";
    echo "Location: ". $items['user']['geo_enabled']."<br />";
    echo "Friends: ". $items['user']['friends_count']."<br />";
    echo "Listed: ". $items['user']['listed_count']."<br /><hr />";
  }
{

?>

Answer 1

As per the doc here https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/direct_messages/new you should

be calling the following end point

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages/new.json

The element names are different than what you are using.

For the

$items['user']['name']

its

$items['sender']['name']

and so on

In the new api call https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages.json

check the returned array how data is returned before doing loop.